A Medieval English Astrolabe Now in Innsbruck, Linked to the Lancastrian Court and with a Chaucer Connection.
- Author / Editor
- Davis, John.
A Medieval English Astrolabe Now in Innsbruck, Linked to the Lancastrian Court and with a Chaucer Connection.
- Published
- Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 34 (2019): 27-68; 11 color illus.
- Description
- Describes in detail an astrolabe--Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum/Zeughaus, Innsbruck, inv. no. 2957, U215--and relates it to other fourteenth-and fifteenth-century English astrolabes labeled "Chaucerian" because their "strapwork" is similar to that depicted in diagrams found in manuscripts of Astr. Offers astrological and calendrical data to associate the device with the Duchy of Lancaster, and provides "circumstantial evidence" that may link it with Henry Bolingbroke and his court, including evidence from Chaucer’s life and works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Life