'Chaucer's own astrolabe': Text, Image and Object

Author / Editor
Eagleton, Catherine.

Title
'Chaucer's own astrolabe': Text, Image and Object

Published
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38 (2007): 303-26.

Description
Evidence from diagrams in the manuscripts of Astr suggests that the diagrams may have influenced construction of later extant medieval astrolabes, perhaps encouraged by Chaucer's "posthumous fame." Includes black-and-white and color illustrations.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion