Endnote 28
Part I, §21, l. 34. streitnes, narrowness,
closeness, smallness of size. In Fig. 2, I have marked every degree
in the southern half of the zodiac, but only every.fifth degree
in the northern, in order to avoid an appearance of crowding in so small
a figure. In Chaucer's own Astrolabe, every other degree was
marked all round.