Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

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red@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Sunwise, as it was based on the movement of the sun during day (in the Northern hemisphere). As watch faces were modelled after sundials, sunwise and clockwise describe the same direction.

Turnwise is a word invented by Pratchett for a book, but it’s clearly based on sunwise. He also used widdershins in his book, which is indeed the unmodified antonym to sunwise.

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