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Is that just by chance or there could be some possible reasons?
It happened that northern hemisphere was more technologically advanced at the time first mechanical clock was made.Don't clocks turn the opposite way in the southern hemisphere?![]()
NoDon't clocks turn the opposite way in the southern hemisphere?![]()
Yes, that was what I have always heard, also.Could be that's because first clock was built in such a way that hands followed direction known from sundials.
I believe I have seen some discussion about the subject, but I can't remember where.
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That would make the most sense.Could be that's because first clock was built in such a way that hands followed direction known from sundials.
I believe I have seen some discussion about the subject, but I can't remember where.
Borek
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Not so fast. There were counterclockwise clocks, but when standardization took over, CW won out over CCW (kind of like VHS over Beta). It could have fallen the other way.The sundial answer is definitely, positively, 100% correct.
That would be like saying that on the first day of your life you should be 1 year and 1 day old.what's always been funny to me is that it seems that the first hour and minute of the day should be 1:01
On the first day of my life I was 12 years and 1 day old. The Chinese count not years since your birth, but rather the number of calendar years in which you lived. A child born in the last second of the 2007 would be 2 years old a moment later having lived in both 2007 and 2008.That would be like saying that on the first day of your life you should be 1 year and 1 day old.
No, a clock is modulo 12. i.e. "12 is the same as 0" so 12:01 is really 0:00.
wouldn't 12:01 actually be 0:01 instead of 0:00??That would be like saying that on the first day of your life you should be 1 year and 1 day old.
No, a clock is modulo 12. i.e. "12 is the same as 0" so 12:01 is really 0:00.
hmmm---it sounds like you're justifying the way it is right now.That would be like saying that on the first day of your life you should be 1 year and 1 day old.
No, a clock is modulo 12. i.e. "12 is the same as 0" so 12:01 is really 0:00.
yeah--but no one starts counting at '0'.wouldn't 12:01 actually be 0:01 instead of 0:00??
Franklin's clock was already going clockwise, so it hardly his faultI think it all boils down to Benjamin Franklin's mistake in labeling the glass rod as bing the one with the positive charge.
We have a tendency to follow what we know, if you look at sundial face and clock face they are very similar, could be the latter was modelled after its ancestor. At the same time, early clocks were very often used not only as time measuring devices, but also for astronomical purposes, thus following sun seems logical.The sundial theory sounds just too far-fetched.