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053 = Elementary Monikers and Rotatory Chronikers

A Problem Squared

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Do the Clocks Run Counterclockwise?

In Bolivia, the National Congress building in La Paz received a new clock that has hands that move anti-clockwise. Do you think they spin on this? Yes. There are a few other notable clocks that run counterclockwise. One of them is Paolo Ucello inside the Duomo. I think it's Ocello. Double C in Italian always. It appears to mainly be because the clocks that we're used to were invented in the Northern Hemisphere. That's where sundials would run with an arc going from left to right.

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