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

CheezyWeezle@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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.

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