minus-squareCheezyWeezle@lemm.eetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?linkfedilinkarrow-up102·1 year agoWell, clocks are just mechanical sundials. Before clockwise, there was sunwise (or deosil), and clocks’ movements are based off of the movement of a shadow across a sundial. linkfedilink
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Well, clocks are just mechanical sundials. Before clockwise, there was sunwise (or deosil), and clocks’ movements are based off of the movement of a shadow across a sundial.