Velocipede RiderWhen mechanical clocks emerged centuries later, dividing hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds made some sense since timekeeping was always closely tied to astronomy and so the sexagesimal logic carried over and it preserved the precision and divisibility of the Babylonian system.
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