Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Note on Names and Translations
• INTRODUCTION
• ONE / Variable Hours in a Changing Society
• TWO / Towers, Pillows, and Graphs: Variation in Clock Design
• THREE / Astronomical Time Measurement and Changing Conceptions of Time
• FOUR / Geodesy, Cartography, and Time Measurement
• FIVE / Navigation and Global Time
• SIX / Time Measurement on the Ground in Kaga Domain
• SEVEN / Clock-Makers at the Crossroads
• EIGHT / Western Time and the Rhetoric of Enlightenment
• CONCLUSIONS
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix 1: Hours
• Appendix 2: Seasons
• Appendix 3: Years in the nengō System
• Appendix 4: The kanshi, or e-to, Cycle
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Gallery