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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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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29.To knowe Iustly the 4 quarters of the world, as est, west, north, & sowth.

[Ad cognoscendum euidenter quatuor partes mundi, scilicet, orientem, austrum, aquilonem, & occidentem.]

¶ Take the altitude of thy sonne whan the list / & note wel the quarter of the world in which the sonne is for the tyme by the Azymutz. ¶ turne thanne thin Astrolabie / & set the degree of the sonne in the Almykanteras of his altitude on thilke side þat the sonne stant / as is the manere in takyng of howres ; ¶ & ley thy label on the degree of the sonne, And rikene how many degres of the bordure ben by-twixe the lyne Meridional & the point of thy label; & note wel þat nowmbre. ¶ [folio 21b] Turne thanne a-gayn thyn Astralabie, & set the point of thy gret Rewle ther thow takest thyne Altitudes / vp-on as many degrees in his bordure fro his Meridional as was the point of thy label fro the lyne Meridional on the wombe-side. ¶ tak thanne thyn Astrolabie with bothe handes sadly & slely, & lat the sonne shyne thorow bothe holes of thy rewle; ¶ & sleyly in thilke shynynge lat thyn Astrelabie kowch adown euene vp- on a smothe grond, & thanne wol the verrey lyne Merydional of thyn

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Astrolabie lye euene sowth, & the est lyne wole lie est, & the west lyne west, & north lyne north, so þat thow werke softly & avisely in the cowchyng ; & thus hastow the 4 quarters of the firmament. ¶ & for the more declaracioun, lo here the figure.

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