{"product_id":"treatise-on-the-astrolabe","title":"Treatise on the Astrolabe","description":"\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.\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","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57769012887896,"sku":"9780806134130","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780806134130.jpg?v=1784700952","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/treatise-on-the-astrolabe","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}