num_pages: 372
description: 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.
language: English
title: Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales
titlecomplete: Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales (Series for Science and Culture)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press