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Hours And Minutes

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
July
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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_"Vhy is oiic rlivkléd into sixty miiiut.es? and each minute ajrain into sixty scconds? Wliy not dmtted our time as wc do our moncy, tens, counting ten, or filty, or one hutulred minutes to au huur. This question was asked by an intelligent boy a few days siuce; and the answer gtven hiin nniy both interest and instruct olheryoung people. The answer is tliis : We have sixly divisioiis on the dials of our clocks aiid watches, because the old Gi'eek astrouomer, llipparchus, who lived in the secoud ociitury before Chriat, accepted the Babylonian bj. tem of recUonn time, that systeiu biny sexigcsiiual. The Babyloaiaus were accjiüiimed with the 'decimal S)slcm; Liut lui' cuiniMuii and practical purposes, they counled by sosm aiid sari, ihe soaaus, repiesenting sixty, and the suros, sixty times sixty, is tliirty-six hundrod. Froni llipparcIhik, that mode of reckuniiig louud ils -vuy into the vroi'ks of Ttolemy, about löu A. D., and heuce was cai1rifd down the ütrcam of science and civiiizaüon, and l'ound the way to our dial platos uf our clocks and watches.,

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus