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In many of its forms the Astrolabe to be one of the most valuable of educational instruments and contains material for an education from the nursery to the University. Chaucer wrote his "Treatise on the Astrolabe" in 1387 for little Lewis, his to learn at Oxford. Manuscript copies of this work of Chaucer approaching completeness are very few in number and inaccessible to the general reader. He undoubtedly obtained the greater part of his book from Latin version of the Compositio et Operatio Astrolabii of Messahalla, an Arabian astronomer who is thought to have flourished about the end of the eighth century. Chaucer certainly was of opinion that he had achieved simplicity in his explanations, for he gave his Treatise the title of "Bread and Milk for Children." He directed his son to read the book with a real Astrolabe in hand. To make the description easier to comprehend, he illustrated every chapter with a neatly drawn diagram, specially drawn to explain each successive proposition. Fifty-seven paragraphs conclude with the instruction, ' For more declaracioun, lo here the figure', and as many as sixty-two explanatory figures may occur in the more complete manuscripts, as in the fine manuscript in the Cambridge University Library known as Dd. 3. 53. The Astrolabe: (1) It is a beautiful piece of workmanship, having a basis of beauty and order in mathematical curves. (2) It is concrete and meant to be handled. (3) It can be taken to pieces and put together again by a boy of 10, and so is superior to a watch or clock. (4) It will provide an introduction to great and worthy fields of investigation— the heavens and the earth, geography, longitude and time, latitude, &c. (5) It will serve to illustrate much of the great scientific work done by the ancients.

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