Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
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Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
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Re: Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
#2I assume the answer to his baseball question (why do baserunner go counter-clockwise?) is that most players bat right-handed. When the idea of running around the bases developed it made sense for batters to run to a base in front of them, which for a right-handed better meant a counter-clockwise trip around the bases.
Re: Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
#3Sundial. Northern hemisphere. Done.
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Re: Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
#5Is it just me, or does it make no sense to call clockwise "left to right?"
After all, when the (end of the) hand of a clock goes around the circle, it goes just as much right to left as it goes left to right, while going clockwise all the time ...
Re: Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
#6Sundial. Northern hemisphere. Done.
You could have written the same article in four words.
Re: Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
#7Is it just me, or does it make no sense to call clockwise "left to right?" After all, when the (end of the) hand of a clock goes around the circle, it goes just as much right to left as it goes left to right, while going clockwise all the time ...
In the context of a sundial (Edit: in the northern hemisphere), it makes more sense. The right-to-left bits are mostly happening at night :)
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#9> the Semites---a people speaking similar languages, from which both Jews and Muslims descend
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Re: Why is clockwise Clockwise? (2008)
#10Is it just me, or does it make no sense to call clockwise "left to right?" After all, when the (end of the) hand of a clock goes around the circle, it goes just as much right to left as it goes left to right, while going clockwise all the time ...
True, I always think the same thing. But if a wheel was rotating clockwise, it would be moving from left to right. That could be where it comes from.