A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Gentieu, Norman P., trans.

Title
A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Published
Foote Prints 31.2 (1960): 12-25.

Description
Translates a portion of Astr (through Part 2.7) into Modern English with accompanying illustrations "re-drawn" from the manuscripts. The Introduction summarizes the nature, variety, and uses of astrolabes, describes Chaucer's text, and commends it as "[o]one of the oldest examples of technical writing in English."

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe
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