Astronomical instruments were probably made after Chaucer's designs, not before.
The British Museum's 'Chaucerian' astrolabe: not really Chaucer's, of course.
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Ball, P. Is this Chaucer's astrolabe?. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news070604-12
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