Time and the astrolabe in the Canterbury tales
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Time and the astrolabe in the Canterbury tales
（Series for science and culture / editor, Robert Markley, 5）
University of Oklahoma Press, c2002
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-341) and index
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Marijane Osborn demonstrates that Chaucer structured the Canterbury Tales after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping device. Chaucer's fascination with this device also accounts for the sense of time and astronomy in the Tales.
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