Astronomical 'Proporcioneles' in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'

Author / Editor
Laird, Edgar S.

Title
Astronomical 'Proporcioneles' in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'

Published
English Language Notes 25:3 (1988): 23-26.

Description
The use of the word "proportionals" by the Clerk of Orleans in FranT shows "how very up to date" Chaucer was in astronomy. Corresponding to the Latin "minuta proportionalia," proportionals were a measure for calculating celestial positions in the Ptolemaic system.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.