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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote perhaps the earliest technical manual about 1391, on the astrolabe. http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf http://www.chirurgeon.or
by gshubert17 9y ago
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote perhaps the earliest technical manual about 1391, on the astrolabe.
http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf
- MaysonL 9y agoNasir al-Din al-Tusi (18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274) wrote one earlier. From the Wikipedia article about him, a couple of his works: al-Risalah al-Asturlabiyah – A Treatise on the astrolabe. Zij-i Ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables) – A major astronomical treatise, completed in 1272. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi