A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Couverture rigide

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0806134135 ISBN 13 : 9780806134130

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806134135
• ISBN 13: 9780806134130
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Eisner Sigmund
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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