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Excerpt from The Treatise on the Astrolabe, of Geoffrey Chaucer: Edited With Notes and Illustrations
Now, the most remarkable anomaly attributable to Chaucer, is his adoption of 23° 50' as the obliquity of the ecliptic that being very much in excess of its known quantity in his time.
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