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Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
| Full title: | Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute) |
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| ISBN: | 9780226516448 |
| ISBN 10: | 022651644X |
| Authors: | Frumer, Yulia |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Edition: | Illustrated |
| Num. pages: | 272 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Language: | en |
| Published on: | 2018 |
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Synopsis
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