Making time : astronomical time measurement in Tokugawa Japan /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frumer, Yulia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Temas:
1600-1868
Time measurements > Japan > History.
Temps > Mesure > Japon > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Time.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
Time measurements
Zeitmessung
Astronomie
Astronomische Zeitmessung
Technischer Fortschritt
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Japon > Histoire > 1600-1868 (Époque des Tokugawa)
Japan
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 constructed and concrete. In the mid-16th century, when the first mechanical clocks arrived in Japan from Europe, the Japanese found them interesting but useless, because they failed to display time in units that changed their length with the seasons, as was customary in Japan at the time. In 1873, however, the Japanese government adopted the Western equal-hour system as well as Western clocks.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226524719
022652471X

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