Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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the poles of this world; as thus. Yif it be of the sonne or of any

fix sterre, rekene his latitude or his declinacioun fro the equinoxial

cercle; and yif it be of a planete, rekne than the quantitee of his

latitude fro the ecliptik lyne. Al-be-it so that fro the equinoxial

may the declinacion or the latitude of any body celestial be rikned,

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after the [site] north or south, and after the quantitee of his declinacion.

And right so may the latitude or the declinacion of any

body celestial, save only of the sonne, after his site north or south,