Author: NEEDHAM, JOSEPH, LU GWEI-DJEN, JOHN H. COMBRIDGE, & JOHN S. MAJOR
Title: The Hall of Heavenly Records. Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks 1380-1780
Publication: Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1986
Description:
Black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 201pp, index, bibliography. A very good hardback copy in like dustjacket.
Contents include: Theoretical and Historical Background; The Re-equipping of the Royal Observatory under King Sejong; From Munjong to Yongjo (1450-1776); The Armillary Clock of Song Iyong and Yi Minch'ol (1669); A Korean Astronomical Screen of the Eighteenth Century.
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