{"product_id":"a-treatise-on-the-astrolabe-volume-6-9780806134130","title":"A Treatise on the Astrolabe, Volume 6","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Treatise the Astrolabe\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot since 1872 has a free-standing edition of \u003cem\u003eA Treatise the Astrolabe\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eA Treatise on the Astrolabe\u003c\/em\u003e provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEisner, Sigmund:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigmund Eisner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Table of Wonder: A Source Study of \"The Wife of Bath's Tale.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328510333202,"sku":"9780806134130","price":82.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_47f95a5d-ee69-4a9a-9a77-a363e1a46dbc.jpg?v=1727742939","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-treatise-on-the-astrolabe-volume-6-9780806134130","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}