chaucer geoffrey price derek john (1 Ergebnisse)

Large 8vo. xvi, 214 pp. Frontispiece, illus., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket torn, some wear. Very good. The Equatorie is a 14th century manuscript in the Library of Peterhouse Cambridge. The text describes the construction and working of a large device for calculating planetary positions. / Changing his life studies (ca.1950), "Price decided to make a career in the history of science, and enrolled for a second Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, supported by an ICI fellowship. He had initially intended to work on a survey of scientific instruments, but during his studies he discovered The Equatorie of the Planetis, a Peterhouse manuscript in Cambridge University Library. The manuscript, written in Middle English, describes an Equatorium, an astronomical calculating instrument, and became the basis of the thesis for his PhD, which he obtained in 1954, and also for a book, published the following year. He believed the work to be by Geoffrey Chaucer, who had written A Treatise on the Astrolabe, but it is now attributed to a St Albans monk called John Westwyk.".