The So-Called "Chaucer Astrolabe" from the Koelliker Collection, Milan: An Account of the Instrument and Its Place in the Tradition of Chaucer-Type Astrolabes.

Author / Editor
Bennett, Jim, and Giorgio Strano.

Title
The So-Called "Chaucer Astrolabe" from the Koelliker Collection, Milan: An Account of the Instrument and Its Place in the Tradition of Chaucer-Type Astrolabes.

Published
Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 29 (2014): 179-29; 9 color and b&w figs.

Description
Describes the ownership history and details the physical features of a fourteenth-century English astrolabe in the Koelliker Collection, Milan, assessing its status as the "Chaucer Astrolabe" (here called the "Tomba-Koelliker astrolabe") by gauging its similarities with and differences from related instruments and the "illustrations in the early copies" of Astr.

Contributor
Strano, Giorgio.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Manuscripts and Textual Studies