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100			_aBremner, Lewis. _921634
245			_aThe magic lantern as a lens for observing the eye in tokugawa Japan: Technology, translation, and the rangaku movement
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a54(3), May, 2020: p.691-729
520			_aThis article explores the thoughts and ideas associated with magic-lantern technology in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Japan. Its primary focus is on trends in Japanese thought from the 1770s until the 1820s, with specific reference to the Rangaku (‘Dutch Studies’) movement. The article examines connections between the magic lantern and a wider discourse within Japan on epistemology, knowledge about nature, and the study of the human body, centring upon the device's vital role in the endeavour to understand the workings of the human eye. Through this lens, a fresh perspective is offered on the role of critical analysis in the translation and interpretation of European texts in Tokugawa Japan, as well as on the shifting prominence of empiricism and deductive reasoning in Japanese epistemology. In this way, the history of the magic lantern is used to look beyond the prevailing West-centred narrative of global technological and intellectual development. - Reproduced
773			_aModern Asian Studies
906			_aHISTORY - JAPAN
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