A treatise on the astrolabe;
addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A.D. 1391. Ed. from the earliest mss. by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat ...

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Main Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

Related Names

Māshāʾallāh, 730?-815?
Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912, editor.
Mā Shā' Allas, al-Miṡrī, active 9th century.
Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912, ed.

Language(s)

English ; English, Middle (1100-1500)

Published

London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1872.

Subjects

Astrolabes.
Treatises > Treatises / England > Treatises / England / 1872.

Note

Appended is "Astrolabium Messehalle" (p. 88-104) the Latin treatise which was evidently one of the sources from which Chaucer drew largely. cf. Pref., p. xxiv.
Caption title: Tractatus de conclusionibus astrolabii.

Physical Description

lxix, 119, [1] p. VII pl. (diagrs.) 22 cm.

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