A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Variorum Chaucer Series - Geoffrey Chaucer - Livros - University of Oklahoma Press - 9780806134130 - 26 de agosto de 2002
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Variorum Chaucer Series

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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.

400 pages, 1 black & white illustration, and 1 colour illustration

Mídia Livros     Hardcover Book   (Livro com lombada e capa dura)
Lançado 26 de agosto de 2002
ISBN13 9780806134130
Editoras University of Oklahoma Press
Páginas 400
Dimensões 178 × 254 × 33 mm   ·   1,02 kg
Idioma Inglês  
Editor Eisner, Sigmund

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