A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was completed in 1391. It describes both the form...

astrolabe". Astrolabes continued to be used in the Byzantine Empire. Christian philosopher John Philoponus wrote a treatise (c. 550) on the astrolabe...

ISBN 978-1-4020-4960-6. Skeat, Walter William (1872). A Treatise on the Astrolabe: addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer A.D. 1391. London: N. Trubner & Co. OCLC 1129737770...

under the patronage of the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Ma'mūn in Baghdad. Later he moved to Cairo, where he composed a treatise on the astrolabe around 856. There,...

as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son, Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil...

astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth...

Al-Andalus. He worked at the school founded by his colleague Al-Majriti in Córdoba. His best-known work was a treatise on the astrolabe, a text that was in active...

Chaucer, who had written A Treatise on the Astrolabe, but it is now attributed to a St Albans monk called John Westwyk. Price received a Nuffield Foundation...

A Treatise on the Astrolabe, with an expert commentary. Skeat produced what is still the main edition of Ælfric of Eynsham's Lives of the Saints; the...

attribute to Theon a work on the astrolabe. This work has not survived, but it may have been the first ever treatise on the astrolabe, and it was important...

Sūri (c. 1340 – 1400) is the 14th century Jain astronomer who wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe. He was trained by Madana...

Nasiri – A work on ethics. al-Risalah al-Asturlabiyah – A Treatise on the astrolabe. Zij-i Ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables) – A major astronomical treatise, completed...

Yantrarāja is the Sanskrit name for the ancient astronomical instrument called astrolabe. It is also the title of a Sanskrit treatise on the construction...

832) was a 9th century Arab geographer and astronomer. He wrote a treatise on the astrolabe and was an opponent of astrology. During the reign of al-Ma'mun...

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988 AD at the observatory built by the Buwayhid amir Sharaf al-Dawla in Badhdad. He wrote a treatise on the astrolabe in which he solves a number of difficult...

Astrolabe (1391). Another Arabic name is Haris-el-sema, from حارس السماء ħāris al-samā’ "the keeper of heaven". or حارس الشمال ħāris al-shamāl’ "the keeper...

master of the science. Chaucer did have a great interest in science and technology, writing a Treatise on the Astrolabe. The Yeoman seems much the more talkative...

major treatise on the astrolabe. His treatise contained 25 chapters and provided detailed explanations of the measurements of the movements of heavenly...

Geoffrey; Mā Shā' Allah, al-Miṡrī (1872). A Treatise on the Astrolabe: Addressed to His Son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer, A.D. 1391. Chaucer Society. p. LVII. Poole...

1957) The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1969) Geoffrey Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe. Variorum Edition of the Works...

Chaucer who wrote a book (for his son Lewis) on the use of the astrolabe, was reported by Holinshed to be "a man so exquisitely learned in al sciences, that...

century and into the sixteenth century. It has had a more subdued but continuing influence on English verse in more recent centuries. The rhyme royal stanza...

his Treatise on the Astrolabe). According to these authors, it was a principle of astrology that the heavenly bodies presided, in succession, over the hours...

the possibility that Chaucer authored the Equatorie, possibly as the missing part of his A Treatise on the Astrolabe, which describes the astrolabe;...

the use of the Arabic version of the astrolabe astronomy instrument. Its first recorded use in English is in the 1390s in Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise...

Nicholas in his Treatise on the Astrolabe. Hakluyt did not himself, of course, have a copy of the Inventio. Nicholas was alive at the right time (very...

to write a Treatise on the Astrolabe for his son. He pinpoints the early spring season of the Canterbury Tales in the opening verses of the prologue by...

agrimensores; but were introduced into medieval Spain through Arabic treatises on the astrolabe, such as that by Ibn al-Saffar (d. 1035). Abu Rayhan Biruni (d...

from astrolabes. The quadrant condensed the workings of the astrolabe into an area one fourth the size of the astrolabe face; it was essentially a quarter...