Treatise on The Astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited from the earliest MSS. by Walter W. Skeat

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

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Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912

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London: N. Trübner & Co.

1872

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4.

¶ This Moder is deuyded on the bakhalf with a lyne, þat cometh dessendinge fro the ryng down to the nethereste bordure. ¶ the whiche lyne, fro þe for-seide Ryng vn-to the centre of the large hole amydde, is cleped the sowth lyne, or elles the lyne Meridional. ¶ & the remenant of this lyne downe to the bordure is cleped the north lyne, or elles the lyne of Midnyht. ¶ & for the more declaracioun, lo here the figure.