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The Hall of Heavenly Records - Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Hall of Heavenly Records - Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780 (Paperback, Revised)
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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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