Astrolabes and the Construction of Time in the Late Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Laird, Edgar (S.)
Astrolabes and the Construction of Time in the Late Middle Ages
- Published
- Disputatio 2 (1997): 51-69.
- Description
- Considers Astr and three other treatises on the astrolabe, exploring what they reflect about medieval notions of time.
- The treatises describe practical uses of the astrolabe, and they also describe operations that had ethical and moral implications. However, they do not speculate about the nature of cosmic time, as do theoretical treatises.
- Laird claims that "lyte Lowis" was not Chaucer's only intended audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.