Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic Text.
- Author / Editor
- Chism, Christine.
Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic Text.
- Published
- Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky, eds. Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 85-120.
- Description
- Describes the variety of cultural uses to which the astrolabe was put historically, and argues that the "complex back-histories of multicultural compilation," the "multifocal transmission," and the "imaginative pedagogy" of Astr assert a "reluctance ever to fasten upon just one authoritative end," and thereby reflect the open-endedness of the instrument and of scientific development more generally, helping to explain the large number of manuscripts of Chaucer's treatise.
- Contributor
- Wallis, Faith, ed.
Wisnovsky, Robert, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
Manuscripts and Textual Studies