Copying and conflation in Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe: a stemmatic analysis using phylogenetic software

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-268

  Eagleton, Catherine ^a   Spencer, Matthew ^b  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrolabe; Geoffrey Chaucer; Manuscripts; Phylogenetics; Stemmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744922671     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2005.08.020     Document Type: Article

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