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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frumer, Yulia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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