Why do clockfaces read the way they do? Why do we in the western world write from left to right?
As the Egyptians recorded 12 divisions for the night and 12 for the day based on the rising of certain stars and the sun in the heavens, it seems obvious, when looking south, that the movement of the sun from left to right, would give the 'natural' order and shape of graphic recording of time, hence giving a guide and leading to adoption when timepieces with clockfaces were invented. Is this connected to the direction of writing? Why do some civilisations write right to left and other left to right? What early influences lead a group to annotate in one direction not another. Having watched left-handers writing from left to right, it seems so 'painful' to perform as the writer cannot clearly see what is written, ink is easily smudged, so might one surmise that the first adopters of writing right to left were left-handed? Not earth-shattering but a curiosity.
