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http://dx.doi.org/10.5140/JASS.2009.26.3.355

Automatic Clock and Time Signal System of the Astronomical Agency in East Asia Area  

Lee, Yong-Sam (Dept. of Astronomy & Space Science, ChungBuk National University)
Kim, Sang-Hyuk (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
Jeong, Jang-Hae (Dept. of Astronomy & Space Science, ChungBuk National University)
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Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences / v.26, no.3, 2009 , pp. 355-374 More about this Journal
Abstract
We analysed the old automatic clock and time signal system that was used by the national astronomical agency in East Asian Area. Jagyeongnu is a kind of water clock that was operated by the flowing water in Joseon Dynasty. Seowoongwan managed the water clock so as to keep the standard time system in the dynasty from the 16th year (1434) of King Sejong's reign. In 1438 the Okru that was invented in the period. Such kind of clock system already was used in China, which was Shui $y\ddot{u}n$ i hsiang t'ai (水運儀象壹) in 1092. During the period Joseon Dynasty, China and Japan had been kept the time system that one day is divided into 12 shin (12辰) or 100 gak (刻). However detailed part of the system had a little difference among the three countries. Though the whole system of water clock in Joseon had manufactured on the basis of Chinese, it had been gradually developed by own method and idea. In this study we show the historical records of the standard time keeping system in East Asian history. And then we can inform materials on the structure and functional devises for the purpose of new restoration models about the automatic clock and time system.
Keywords
time keeping system; time annunciator mechanisms; East Asian history;
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