The terms for “clockwise” and “Counterclockwise” originated long before clocks. Clockwise was originally called “Sunwise” and followed the movement of the shadow around a sundial.
Counterclockwise was “widdershins”, from a Middle Low German phrase meaning “against the way.”
We don’t use “earthwise” because from our perspective, the earth doesn’t rotate.
The terms for “clockwise” and “Counterclockwise” originated long before clocks. Clockwise was originally called “Sunwise” and followed the movement of the shadow around a sundial.
Counterclockwise was “widdershins”, from a Middle Low German phrase meaning “against the way.”
We don’t use “earthwise” because from our perspective, the earth doesn’t rotate.
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