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‘The Equatorie of the Planetis’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Harold Spencer Jones
Harold Spencer Jones
Affiliation:
(Astronomer Royal)
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Extract

In the course of collecting data for a general history of scientific instruments, Dr. Price came across the manuscript that forms the subject of this volume in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge. It attracted his attention because of its subject matter, because it was written in Middle English, and because the date 1392 frequently occurred. As Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe was written in 1391 and is apparently incomplete, it seemed at first sight possible that the Peterhouse manuscript might be a missing part of Chaucer's Treatise, which at that time was the only instrument tract written in Middle English known to Dr. Price.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1955 , pp. 344 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1955

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References

* The Equatorie of the Planetis. Edited from Peterhouse MS. 75.1 by Dr.Price, Derek J., with a linguistic analysis by R. M. Wilson. Pp. xvi + 214 +14. (Cambridge University Press, 1955CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 52s. 6d. net.)