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

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