[time-nuts] New timekeeping book (Time in Tokugawa Japan)

[Kevin Birth]

Frumer does good work, and Tokugawa era timekeeping is interesting because
it used western-stye clock movements to represent seasonally variable
hours, which makes it culturally irrelevant to this list since it
emphasized kairotic timekeeping rather than precision and uniformity.

Cheers,

Kevin

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On 6/24/19, 1:41 PM, "time-nuts on behalf of jimlux"
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