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A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Variorum Chaucer Series Geoffrey Chaucer
A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Variorum Chaucer Series
Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
400 pages, 1 black & white illustration, and 1 colour illustration
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Hardcover Book (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros) |
| Publicado | 26 de agosto de 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780806134130 |
| Editores | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Páginas | 400 |
| Dimensiones | 178 × 254 × 33 mm · 975 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |
| Editor | Eisner, Sigmund |
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