History, Technical Style, and Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
- Author / Editor
- Ovitt, George,Jr.
History, Technical Style, and Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
- Published
- Mark Amsler, ed. Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987): pp. 34-58.
- Series
- Studies in Science and Culture, vol. 3.
- Description
- Written for "Lyte Lowys" (Chaucer's son), Astr is a concise, brilliant translation of Masha'allah's "De compositione et utilitate astrolabii." Chaucer best displays his comprehension in his definitions of the equinoctial. Although written for a ten-year-old, Astr reveals Chaucer's understanding of the functional workings of the astrolabe.
- Contributor
- Amsler, Mark,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.