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Making time : astronomical time measurement in Tokugawa Japan / Yulia Frumer.
LIBRA QB213 .F795 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frumer, Yulia, author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time measurements--Japan--History.
- Time measurements.
- History.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 270 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Variable hours in a changing society
- Towers, pillows, and graphs: variation in clock design
- Astronomical time measurement and changing conceptions of time
- Geodesy, cartography, and time measurement
- Navigation and global time
- Time measurement on the ground in Kaga domain
- Clock-makers at the crossroads
- Western time and the rhetoric of enlightenment.
- ISBN:
- 9780226516448
- 022651644X
- OCLC:
- 987070550
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