TY - JOUR
AU - Pettet, E. C.
AB - Reviews of Books The Equatorie of the Planetis. Edited from This scholarly edition provides a full ap- paratus to enable the reader to draw his own the Peterhouse MS. by DEREK J. PRICE. final conclusion: a facsimile of the text, with a Cambridge. 52J. 6d. It was almost certainly in 1391 that Chaucer, line-by-line transcription and subsequent trans- in response to the 'busy prayer' of his ten-year- lation into modern English; an account of the Ptolemaic planetary system, a short history of old son, 'litel Lowis', sat down to write his the equatorium, and some extracts from Middle Treatise on the Astrolabe. Now it is believed that English scientific texts for comparison with the a companion work, written about 1392 and at present in the Library of Peterhouse, Cam- Equatorie; and a linguistic analysis and glossary bridge—an author's holograph heavily revised by Mr. R. M. Wilson. For all students of Chaucer this is an intensely interesting as well by the writer in the process of composition—is as a valuable textual exploration. also the work of Chaucer. This treatise describes the construction and working of an instrument MARGARET WILLY whose function was complementary to that of the astrolabe: the one 
TI - The Age of Shakespeare; Shakespeare Survey 8; Studies in Elizabethan Drama; The Mutual Flame; Hamlet: Father and Son
JO - English
DO - 10.1093/english/10.59.188-b
DA - 1955-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-age-of-shakespeare-shakespeare-survey-8-studies-in-elizabethan-gGJjoAh4f5
SP - 188-b
EP - 190
VL - 10
IS - 59
DP - DeepDyve
ER -