The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780 by John H. Combridge, Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen

The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780

Antiquarian Horological Society Monograph

John H. Combridge, Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen

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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 dist...

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