Making time : astronomical time measurement in Tokugawa Japan /: astronomical time measurement in Tokugawa Japan. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yulia Frumer.
• Authors: Frumer, Yulia
• Contents: Note on Names and Translations Introduction 1. Variable Hours in a Changing Society 2. Towers, Pillows, and Graphs: Variation in Clock Design 3. Astronomical Time Measurement and Changing Conceptions of Time 4. Geodesy, Cartography, and Time Measurement 5. Navigation and Global Time 6. Time Measurement on the Ground in Kaga Domain 7. Clock-makers at the Crossroads 8. Western Time and the Rhetoric of Enlightenment Conclusions Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Hours Appendix 2: Seasons Appendix 3: Years in the nengō System Appendix 4: The kanshi-, or e-to, Cycle Notes Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 529.709520903; Time measurements -- Japan -- History; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226524719
• Related ISBNs: 9780226516448
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