A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume VI, The Prose Treaties. Part One: A Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Eisner, Sigmund and Geoffrey Chaucer:

ISBN 10: 0806134135 / ISBN 13: 9780806134130

Edité par Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002

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xxiv, 358 p., Ill. Eine der ersten Seiten ist lose, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. One of the first pages is loose, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- A Brief Account of This Edition -- Abbreviations and Sigils -- Introduction -- The Planispheric Astrolabe -- Construction -- History -- The Painswick Astrolabe -- Critical Commentary -- Authorship of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Little Lewis -- Date of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- The Equatorie of the Planetis -- Sources of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Survey of Commentary -- The Treatise as Writing -- Chaucer the Pedagogue -- Chaucer and Astrology -- Textual Commentary -- The Choice of a Base Manuscript -- The Authenticity of the Supplementary Conclusions and the -- Structure of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- The Relationship of the Manuscripts -- Descriptions of the Manuscripts -- Descriptions of the Printed Editions -- The Present Edition -- A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Bibliographical Index -- General Index. ISBN 9780806134130 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 967.

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• Titre: A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume VI, The Prose Treaties. Part One: A Treatise on the Astrolabe.
• Éditeur: Norman: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0806134135
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780806134130
• Reliure: Hardcover.
• État de l'article: Sehr gut
• Poids: 967 grammes
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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.

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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."