Making time : astronomical time measurement in Tokugawa Japan /

Frumer, Yulia,

Making time : astronomical time measurement in Tokugawa Japan / Yulia Frumer. - 1 online resource. - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University . - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. .

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.

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Time measurements--History.--Japan
Time measurements.
SCIENCE / Time


Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Japan.


History.
Electronic books.

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