The "Chaucerian" Astrolabe in the British Museum: A Reassessment of Its Dating and Ownership.
- Author / Editor
- Davis, John.
The "Chaucerian" Astrolabe in the British Museum: A Reassessment of Its Dating and Ownership.
- Published
- Journal for the History of Astronomy 50, no. 2 (2019): 121–54; 11 color illus.
- Description
- Offers evidence that the "Chaucerian" astrolabe in the British Museum was constructed in the early fifteenth century, perhaps for Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, and provides "a scenario whereby . . . Chaucer would be exposed to astrolabes with the general design which appear" in manuscripts of Astr, in "an environment where it was being taught to children."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
Chaucer's Life