| A Treatise on the Astrolabe, Volume 6 Contributor(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (Author), Eisner, Sigmund (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0806134135 ISBN-13: 9780806134130 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: Demonstrates that Chaucer structured both Canterbury Tales after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping devic. Chaucer's fascination with this device also accounts for the sense of time and astronomy in the Canterbury Tales. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 522.4 |
| LCCN: 2001052269 |
| Series: Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 7.22" W x 10.22" (2.15 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Eisner, Sigmund: - 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." |