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

chaunge nat her meridian, but sothly they chaungen her almikanteras;

for the enhausing of the pool and the distance of the

sonne. The longitude of a clymat is a lyne imagined fro est to

west, y-lyke distant by-twene them alle. [The latitude of a clymat]

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is a lyne imagined from north to south the space of the erthe,

fro the byginning of the firste clymat unto the verrey ende of

the same climat, evene directe agayns the pole artik. Thus seyn

some auctours; and somme of hem seyn that yif men clepen the

latitude, thay mene the arch meridian that is contiened or intercept