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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27.This is the conclusioun to knowe the Assenciouns of signes in the riht cercle, þat is, circulus directus, &c.

[Ad cognoscendum ascenciones signorum in recto circulo, qui vocatur circulus directus.]

[folio 20b]

Set the heued of what signe the liste to knowe his Assending in the riht cercle / vp-on [the] lyne Meridional, ¶ & waite wher thin Almury towchiet[h] the bordure, & set ther a prikke/ turne thanne thy riet westward til þat the ende of the forseide signe sitte vp-on the Meridional lyne / & eft-sones waite wher thin almury towchith the bordure, & set ther Another prikke. Rikne thanne the nombre of degrees in the bordure by-twyxe bothe prikkes, ¶ & tak the Assencioun of the signe in the riht cercle. And thus maistow wyrke with euery porcioun of thy zodiak, &c. ¶ & for the more declaracioun, lo her thi figure.