Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A treatise on the astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerA treatise on the astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: 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.
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Chaucer Society (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Catalogue of the Museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of London
Author: London (England). Clockmakers' Company. MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Catalogue Chronologically Arranged of the Collection of Clocks, Watches, Chronometers
Author: Worshipful Company of ClockmakersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
“A” Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 with an Alphabetical List of Authors Annexed
Author: General Catalogue of the Library to June, 1895
Author: Royal Dublin SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Catalogue. ... Supplement. (Second-fifteenth Supplement.).
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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