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I wonder whether clockwise was generally favoured over anti-clockwise (or widdershins [1]) for superstitious reasons. Clockwise is "right" vs anticlockwise as "
by samizdis 5y ago
I wonder whether clockwise was generally favoured over anti-clockwise (or widdershins [1]) for superstitious reasons. Clockwise is "right" vs anticlockwise as "left".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins
- teorema 5y agoI wonder if you just asked 1000 people to draw a spiral without any other context, would there be some handedness/chirality to the drawings? My guess is there would be. https://briankoberlein.com/blog/gripping-hand/ https://briankoberlein.com/blog/gripping-hand/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27852139/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27852139/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/658702.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/658702.pdf