Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Treatise on the Astrolabe ... Edited with Notes and Illustrations by Andrew Edmund Brae. (Appendix. Reprints of Papers on the Astronomy of Chaucer in “The Canterbury Tales.” With Additional Notes.-Essays.).
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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A Treatise the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer is the work of an avid amateur astronomer who happened also to be England’s greatest medieval poet. A user of the astrolabe can plot the movement of the stars, tell time, and calculate numerous other results. Chaucer translated and revised a standard Latin treatment of the astrolabe. His treatise, which is generally regarded as one of the first technical manuals in English and a model of how technical manuals should be written. Not since 1872 has a free-standing edition of A Treatise the Astrolabe been published. Thanks to the expertise of its editor, Sigmund Eisner, who supplies sixty-eight illustrations, this Variorum edition provides a more detailed exposition than previously available. Eisner’s extensive labors result in the first complete record of textual variants found in the thirty-two surviving manuscripts of the work and in all the major printed text published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer’s treatise. Amplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer’s A Treatise on the Astrolabe provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Treatise the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer is the work of an avid amateur astronomer who happened also to be England’s greatest medieval poet. A user of the astrolabe can plot the movement of the stars, tell time, and calculate numerous other results. Chaucer translated and revised a standard Latin treatment of the astrolabe. His treatise, which is generally regarded as one of the first technical manuals in English and a model of how technical manuals should be written. Not since 1872 has a free-standing edition of A Treatise the Astrolabe been published. Thanks to the expertise of its editor, Sigmund Eisner, who supplies sixty-eight illustrations, this Variorum edition provides a more detailed exposition than previously available. Eisner’s extensive labors result in the first complete record of textual variants found in the thirty-two surviving manuscripts of the work and in all the major printed text published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer’s treatise. Amplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer’s A Treatise on the Astrolabe provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available.
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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five hundred years of chaucer criticism and allusion
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion: Parts II and III
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Chaucer Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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