Geography is also at work nearly 70% of the Earth's land surface area is in the northern hemisphere as well). In the Scottish Records of Elgin, which cover the years 1280 to 1800, we read a complaint that says, "Sayand the said Margarat Baffour vas ane huyr and ane wyche and that sche ȝeid widersonnis about mennis hous sark alane," which roughly translates as "Claimed that the aforementioned Margaret Balfour, was a whore and a witch, and that she went about men's houses in only her shift." Clearly if you wanted to be done for witchcraft in Elginshire in 1545, dancing counterclockwise in your nighty around someone's house was more than enough provocation.Īs to why the relative motion of the Sun in the northern hemisphere should have come to dominate clock and watch design globally, the answer is probably that mechanical clocks were first widely developed in the northern hemisphere – a simple case of history being written by the victors (or inventors, in this case. "Widdershins" is first attested in 1545 (notably, well after the appearance of public clocks in Europe) and very colorfully. Two old terms in English exist: widdershins (counterclockwise) and deosil or deasil (clockwise) though again, these seem to originally have more had the sense of left and right rather than clockwise or counterclockwise per se. Send us feedback about these examples.The answer to the first question is difficult the idea that one would need to specify motion one way or the other around a circle doesn't seem to have been very widespread prior to the development of clocks, and people simply seemed to have said left or right, in most cases.
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2020 The fibers were twisted clockwise to form yarn, and then three lengths of the yarn were twisted in the opposite direction to make string. 2020 The study found that three groups of fibers were separated and twisted clockwise like an S and once twisted, the strands were twined counterclockwise to form a cord. 2020 So now, with only two other forces, the only way for their torques to offset is for one to pull clockwise and the other to pull counterclockwise. 2020 James Cook was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean, on a ship called the Endeavour, discovering that its main current flowed clockwise continuously around the pole. 2020 Daniele's Diamond DA42 twin-engine turbo prop plane lifted off from the Rochester airport headed south, flew counter- clockwise around the community then zig-zagged across the city. 2020 The most common design requires a clockwise-turn and pull of the circular filter.
Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 16 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web High-pressure systems are swirling, clockwise-moving patterns of airflow, where the atmospheric pressure tends to be higher than the surrounding atmosphere.
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