Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, there was created under the Yi Dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks. The present volume is the result of close collaboration between four distinguished historians of Asian science to demonstrate the context, purpose, nature and specific workings of these early scientific instruments. Specially commissioned drawings and other illustrations demonstrate their complexities of design and operation. A brief introduction is given to the Chinese background of Korean astronomy and astronomical instrument-making and to the renaissance of Korean astronomy in the early fifteenth century. In a detailed examination of the instruments made under the supervision of King Sejong in the 1430s, there is documentation of the re-equipping of the Royal Observatory, with identification of the individual instruments involved. A survey of the succeeding two centuries gives the background to Song Iyong's instrument, identified as a demonstrational armillary sphere in the Koryo University Museum.
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Under the Yi dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks was created. In this volume, four distinguished historians of Asian science demonstrate the context, purpose, nature and specific workings of these early scientific instruments.
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In the Chinese tradition shared by Korea, astronomy was both a royal duty and a royal prerogative. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
striking clepsydra, jade clepsydra, sidereal component, scaphe sundials, astronomical screen, armillary clock, oblique threads, declination ring, polar pivot, demonstrational armillary sphere, munhön pigo, ecliptic ring, loo intervals, observational armillary sphere, small bronze balls, munhón pigo, clepsydra vessels, steelyard clepsydra, striking train, equatorial sundial, timekeeping instruments, horizontal sundial, inclining vessel, celestial planisphere, celestial degrees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Sejong, Simplified Instrument, Striking Clepsydra, Kim Ton, Kuo Shou-ching, Royal Observatory, Fortnightly Periods, Schall von Bell, Bureau of Astronomy, Lunar Lodges, Sun-and-Stars Time-Determining Instrument, East Asian, Song Iyóng, Song Iyöng, Kim Pin, Chang Heng, History of Korea, Book of Documents, Northern Dipper, Ch'oe Yuji, Jupiter Stations, Kim Yuk, Simplified-Instrument Platform, Tycho Brahe, Yüan Dynasty New!
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In the Chinese tradition shared by Korea, astronomy was both a royal duty and a royal prerogative. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
striking clepsydra, jade clepsydra, sidereal component, scaphe sundials, astronomical screen, armillary clock, oblique threads, declination ring, polar pivot, demonstrational armillary sphere, munhön pigo, ecliptic ring, loo intervals, observational armillary sphere, small bronze balls, munhón pigo, clepsydra vessels, steelyard clepsydra, striking train, equatorial sundial, timekeeping instruments, horizontal sundial, inclining vessel, celestial planisphere, celestial degrees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Sejong, Simplified Instrument, Striking Clepsydra, Kim Ton, Kuo Shou-ching, Royal Observatory, Fortnightly Periods, Schall von Bell, Bureau of Astronomy, Lunar Lodges, Sun-and-Stars Time-Determining Instrument, East Asian, Song Iyóng, Song Iyöng, Kim Pin, Chang Heng, History of Korea, Book of Documents, Northern Dipper, Ch'oe Yuji, Jupiter Stations, Kim Yuk, Simplified-Instrument Platform, Tycho Brahe, Yüan Dynasty New!
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- Evolution of Clockwork by John Drummond Robertson on 5 pages
- A History of Korea by William E. Henthorn on 4 pages
- History of Korea by Takashi Hatada on page 11, page 96, and Back Matter
- The History of Korea by H. B. Hulbert in Front Matter, page 100, and Back Matter
- The History Of Korea (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Chun-Gil Kim in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia (Needham Research Institute Stu) by Silvio A. Bedini on page 7, page 14, and Back Matter
- Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Vol. 1 by Peter H. Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 1 by Peter H. Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum in Back Matter
- Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy (World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics) by Arvind Bhatnagar on page 28
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