We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Yulia Frumer, the Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Assistant Professor of East Asian Science and Technology in the Department of History of Science … [Read more...]
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yulia Frumer (University of Chicago Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. 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 … [Read more...]
