Chaucer's Authorship of the "Equatorie of the Planetis": The Use of Romance Vocabulary as Evidence.

Author / Editor
Herdan, G.

Title
Chaucer's Authorship of the "Equatorie of the Planetis": The Use of Romance Vocabulary as Evidence.

Published
Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 32.2 (1956): 254-59.

Description
Tabulates the percentage of romance words in the works of Chaucer against the overall length of these works, suggesting that, in terms of its romance vocabulary, Equat "is to be regarded as a work by Chaucer." Establishes a logarithmic formula for these calculations and includes statistical comparison with other writers, such as Gower, Mandeville, Shakespeare, and Milton.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Language and Word Studies