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

which the sterre standeth; and with that same degree comth that

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same sterre un-to that same lyne fro the orisonte. And for more

declaracioun, lo here thy figure.

[19.] To knowe with which degree of the zodiak any sterre fixe in thyn Astrolabie aryseth up-on the est orisonte, althogh his dwelling be in a-nother signe.

[Ad cognoscendum cum quibus gradibus zodiaci que stella fixa in astrolabio ascendit super orizontem orientalem, quamvis eius statio sit in alio signo.]

Set the centre of the sterre up-on the est orisonte, and loke

what degree of any signe that sit up-on the same orisonte at that

same tyme. And understond wel, that with that same degree

aryseth that same sterre; and this merveyllous arysing with a