Interpretation: Why are clocks clockwise?

In fact, you can watch the pointer "counterclockwise" movement, as long as the scale to be adjusted, but the timing of development in the history of science, we can find the reason for the traditional "clockwise" indicates the presence of the way.

From the current understanding of people's time, the time is certainly an infinite increasing quantities, but the daily timing unit in months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, but with an obvious periodicity, a circular scale to describe these period amount is indeed scientific choice. Time and timing are two completely different concepts related to each other. Time is the essence, the timing is a description of the various phenomena related to time. In a limited space, to describe an infinite amount pointer pi is the most simple and intuitive way.

First time the foundation of human expression derived from the diurnal and seasonal variations, to some extent, this change about primitive human survival, and therefore become very sacred time. In different ancient civilizations, the timing of religion often appear in their original form, there are many ancient civilizations worshiped the sun phenomenon, which actually comes from the fear of the people of the time, but people mistakenly think that the sun is the master of time. In the long-term practice, people began to realize the diurnal and seasonal changes in the position of the cycle of the moon and stars and relevant, which appeared in the apparent motion of the sun (that is, people's eyes to the sun to observe the running track) as the reference timing mode. One of the most ancient sundial is a timer that altar into the public life, timing is also learning from religion evolved into a science, this science development so far, the achievements of the modern watch industry. Today, timers and ancient timer completely different, but the stigma --- dials and pointers are still with the original timer --- they are still a "clockwise" movement instruction time.

Despite the emergence of the earliest history of the timer has not be verified, but watch pointer "clockwise" movement, but clearly reflects a historical fact: it first appeared in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere of civilization, because the sun's apparent motion is self east to west, so that the projection of the northern hemisphere sundial must be "clockwise" campaign. Thus, in the development process of the timer, this traditional instruction methods from generation to generation, still in use.

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