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A Treatise on the Astrolabe, Volume 6

A Treatise on the Astrolabe, Volume 6 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Geoffrey Chaucer, Sigmund Eisner (Editor)Series:Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer #6Publish date:2002-08-26Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806134130ISBN-10:806134135UPC:9780806134130Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:10.22 x 7.22 x 1.32 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCEVGY74WE

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806134130ISBN-10:806134135UPC:9780806134130Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:10.22 x 7.22 x 1.32 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCEVGY74WE
Eisner, Sigmund: -

Sigmund Eisner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is the author of A Table of Wonder: A Source Study of "The Wife of Bath's Tale."

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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