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A Treatise on the Astrolabe
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe, completed by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1391. Notable as technical prose from a writer better known for poetry, it describes bot
A so-called 'Chaucer Astrolabe' dated 1326, similar to the one Chaucer describes, British Museum
A so-called 'Chaucer Astrolabe' dated 1326, similar to the one Chaucer describes, British Museum
The back of the Astrolabe
The back of the Astrolabe
The front of the astrolabe, fully assembled
The front of the astrolabe, fully assembled
The rewle [rule], pin (with wedge) and disc for Oxford
The rewle [rule], pin (with wedge) and disc for Oxford
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poet
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
…A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe, completed by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1391. Notable as technical prose from a writer better known for poetry, it describes both the form and the proper use of the instrument. It was…
1412 portrait
1412 portrait
Chaucer as a pilgrim (from the early fifteenth-century Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales)
Chaucer as a pilgrim (from the early fifteenth-century Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales)
A nineteenth-century depiction of Chaucer
A nineteenth-century depiction of Chaucer
Blue plaque at the site of the Tabard inn in Southwark, London, where in 1386 the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off to visit Canterbury Cathedr
Blue plaque at the site of the Tabard inn in Southwark, London, where in 1386 the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off to visit Canterbury Cathedral