Astronomical 'Proporcioneles' in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Laird, Edgar S.
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.