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ISBN: 9784866580173 4866580178 Year: 2018 Publisher: Tokyo : Japanese Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,
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"Wasan--a unique form of Japanese mathematics--was developed during the Edo period (1603-1868), a time when the entire country was isolated from the rest of the world. Mathematics was enjoyed as a form of entertainment by adults and children alike and by people of all social classes. Jinkōki, an extraordinary mathematics textbook, was used at private elementary schools called terakoya and became a bestseller that could be found in every household. Furthermore, world-class works were produced by Japanese mathematicians such as Seki Takakazu and Takebe Katahiro. This book explores the beauty and fascination surrounding wasan by providing a guided tour that goes back in time over three hundred years and navigates through the mysterious and incredible world of mathematical wizardry found during the Edo period in Japan"--
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ISBN: 9780226516448 022651644X 022652471X 9780226524719 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
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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 constructed and concrete. In the mid-sixteenth 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. Given that Japan carried out this reform during a period of rapid industrial development, it would be easy to assume that time consciousness is inherent to the equal-hour system and a modern lifestyle, but Making Time suggests that punctuality and time-consciousness are equally possible in a society regulated by a variable-hour system, arguing that this reform occurred because the equal-hour system better reflected a new conception of time - as abstract and universal-which had been developed in Japan by a narrow circle of astronomers, who began seeing time differently as a result of their measurement and calculation practices. Over the course of a few short decades this new way of conceptualizing time spread, gradually becoming the only recognized way of treating time.
Time measurements --- History --- Japan --- Time --- Measurement --- 529.7 --- 529.7 Astronomic determination of time. Measurement of time. Chronometry. Transcription of time. Regulation of time. The clock --- Astronomic determination of time. Measurement of time. Chronometry. Transcription of time. Regulation of time. The clock --- Physical measurements --- Vibration --- Clocks and watches --- J7130 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- astronomy -- chronology, horology and calendars --- Japan: Science and technology -- astronomy -- chronology, horology and calendars --- History. --- Japan. --- Tokugawa. --- abstract. --- astronomers. --- constructed. --- measurement. --- modernization. --- reform. --- time. --- variable hour.
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ISBN: 9782021375008 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris Editions du Seuil
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