Making Time : Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan /

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What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything-it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frumer, Yulia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Temas:
Japan-History-Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Time measurements > Japan > History.
Time measurements-Japan-History.
SCIENCE / General.
Japan.
Tokugawa.
abstract.
astronomers.
constructed.
measurement.
modernization.
reform.
time.
variable hour.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Names and Translations
  • Introduction
  • One. Variable Hours in a Changing Society
  • Two. Towers, Pillows, and Graphs: Variation in Clock Design
  • Three. Astronomical Time Measurement and Changing Conceptions of Time
  • Four. Geodesy, Cartography, and Time Measurement
  • Five. Navigation and Global Time
  • Six. Time Measurement on the Ground in Kaga Domain
  • Seven. Clock- Makers at the Crossroads
  • Eight. 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

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