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Monday, 4 September 2017
Why do clocks turn in the opposite direction from the Earth and Moon? (Intermediate)
Why do clocks turn in the opposite direction from the Earth and Moon? (Intermediate) First of all, the Earth and Moon only turn counter-clockwise when viewed from a certain perspective: above the North Pole. If you looked at them from the South Pole, they would appear to turn clockwise. The reason that clocks turn clockwise has to do with sundials, which were the first clocks. In the northern hemisphere, the earth rotates counter-clockwise, which means that from our point of view the sun appears to move across the sky in a clockwise directon. Therefore, if you build a sundial to tell time, the shadows will move across it in a clockwise direction.
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