![]() ![]() The Canterbury Tales are Chaucer’s most famous and ambitious work. 1343–1400) is possibly the most well versed in contemporary natural philosophy.* As well as many references throughout the Canterbury Tales and other poems to details of ‘astronomye’ (what we now call astrology), alchemy, medicine and physics, he wrote a prose Treatise on the Astrolabe. ![]() ![]() Of the major poets in English, Chaucer (c. Most of the medical authorities are Greeks, Persians or Arabs: Aesculapius, Dioscorides, Rufus of Ephesus, Hippocrates, an Ali, Galen, a Serapion, Rhazes, Avicenna, Averroes, Johannes Damascenus, Constantinus Africanus, Bernard de Gordon, John of Gaddesden, Gilbertus Anglicus Verray, parfit, true, complete (echoing the famous description of the ‘verray, parfit gentil knyght’) yknowe, known his harm, its harm yaf, gave boote, cure wynne, gain pestilence, the Black Plague, which struck England during Chaucer’s lifetime The cause yknowe, and of his harm the roote, Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye,Īnd where they engendred, and of what humour. In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, From General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales ![]()
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