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 -- Kevin K. Birth, Professor Department of Anthropology Queens College, City University of New York 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, NY 11367 telephone: 718/997-5518 "Tempus est mundi instabilis motus, rerumque labentium cursus." --Hrabanus Maurus "We may live longer but we may be subject to peculiar contagion and spiritual torpor or illiteracies of the imagination" --Wilson Harris On 6/24/19, 1:41 PM, "time-nuts on behalf of jimlux" <time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com on behalf of jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: >EXTERNAL EMAIL: please report suspicious content to the ITS Help Desk. > > >On 6/24/19 9:39 AM, Mark Kahrs wrote: >> http://weai.columbia.edu/weai-author-qa-yulia-frumers-making-time/ >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >>http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com >> and follow the instructions there. >> > >"Think of it: what we call ³noon² today rarely coincides with the >astronomical solar noon (when the sun is at its zenith). Not only do >most of us not live precisely in the right place on the time zone, but >also only four days a year do solar days last exactly 24 hours. Most of >the people do not really care about these inconsistencies because they >do not really matter for our functioning." > > >"Most of the people" is not time-nuts.. > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com >To unsubscribe, go to >http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com >and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
