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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"Treatise on The Astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited from the earliest MSS. by Walter W. Skeat." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ChaucerAstr. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2024.

Pages

[folio 3b]

7.

¶ Fro this litel + vp to the ende of the lyne Meridional, vndur the ryng, ¶ shaltow fynden the bordure deuyded with 90 degres ; & by that same proporcioun is euery quarter of thin Astrolabie deuyded. ¶ ouer the wiche degrees ther ben nowmbres of augrym, þat deuyden thilke same degres fro 5 to 5, as shewith by longe strykes bytwene. ¶ of wyche longe strykes the space by- twene contienith a Mile-wey. ¶ & euery degree of the bordure contieneth 4 Minutes, that [is] to seyn, minutes of an howre. ¶ & for more declaracioun, lo here the figure.