The So-Called "Chaucer Astrolabe" from the Koelliker Collection, Milan: An Account of the Instrument and Its Place in the Tradition of Chaucer-Type Astrolabes.
- Author / Editor
- Bennett, Jim, and Giorgio Strano.
The So-Called "Chaucer Astrolabe" from the Koelliker Collection, Milan: An Account of the Instrument and Its Place in the Tradition of Chaucer-Type Astrolabes.
- Published
- Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 29 (2014): 179-29; 9 color and b&w figs.
- Description
- Describes the ownership history and details the physical features of a fourteenth-century English astrolabe in the Koelliker Collection, Milan, assessing its status as the "Chaucer Astrolabe" (here called the "Tomba-Koelliker astrolabe") by gauging its similarities with and differences from related instruments and the "illustrations in the early copies" of Astr.
- Contributor
- Strano, Giorgio.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
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