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... Treatise on the Astrolabe , for his little son Lewis , which was probably followed by his Compleynt of Venus , his Envoy to Skogan , Marriage , Gentilnesse , Lack of Stedfastness , Fortune , and his Compleynt to his Purse ( in Sept ...
... Treatise on the Astrolabe , for his little son Lewis , which was probably followed by his Compleynt of Venus , his Envoy to Skogan , Marriage , Gentilnesse , Lack of Stedfastness , Fortune , and his Compleynt to his Purse ( in Sept ...
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... treatise on the Astrolabe in 1391. There is no evidence whatever that Thomas Chaucer , who attained to immense wealth , and whose great - grandson , John de la Pole ( Earl of Lincoln ) , was declared by Richard III heir - apparent to ...
... treatise on the Astrolabe in 1391. There is no evidence whatever that Thomas Chaucer , who attained to immense wealth , and whose great - grandson , John de la Pole ( Earl of Lincoln ) , was declared by Richard III heir - apparent to ...
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... Treatise on the Astrolabe ( 1391 ) . The Court of Love , Lydgate's Complaint of the Black Knight , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale , The Isle of Ladies , Chaucer's Dream , The Flower and the Leaf , are also usually ascribed to Chaucer ...
... Treatise on the Astrolabe ( 1391 ) . The Court of Love , Lydgate's Complaint of the Black Knight , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale , The Isle of Ladies , Chaucer's Dream , The Flower and the Leaf , are also usually ascribed to Chaucer ...
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... treatises are accompanied by introductions , notes , maps , and a chronological summary . The ATHENÆUM says of this work that it is " a version at once readable and exact , which may be perused with pleasure by all , and consulted with ...
... treatises are accompanied by introductions , notes , maps , and a chronological summary . The ATHENÆUM says of this work that it is " a version at once readable and exact , which may be perused with pleasure by all , and consulted with ...
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... TREATISE ON PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS . Designed for the Use of Students in the Univer- With Diagrams . Crown ... treatises embracing both branches of probabilities ( the first relating to chances which can be altered only by the ...
... TREATISE ON PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS . Designed for the Use of Students in the Univer- With Diagrams . Crown ... treatises embracing both branches of probabilities ( the first relating to chances which can be altered only by the ...
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