为什么时间和角度都是六十进制?

• 作 者: 徐风
• 出 处: 百科知识
• 发表日期: 2012年18期
• 关键词: 黄道面 六十进制 古巴比伦 天文观测

角度、钟表的60进制都是为了等分方便确立的。圆周规定为360度的原因,现在比较认可的说法是:古埃及人认为360天为一年(虽然与实际有些出入),一年的时间正好观测到黄道面循环一周,而且古人用一种朴素的哲学上的统一观点,认为360是一个世界上的常数,因此后来在天文观测以及圆周丈量的时候,就用360作为圆周的度数。古巴比伦用的是60进制,至今人类在记录

Angle, clock 60 hexadecimal is to facilitate the establishment of equal points. The reason the circumference is set at 360 degrees is now more generally accepted as saying that the ancient Egyptians considered 360 days a year (although somewhat different from reality), observing the cycle of the ecliptic once a year, and that the ancients used a simple Of the philosophical unity of view, that 360 is a constant in the world, so later in astronomical observations and circumference measurements, use 360 ​​as the circumference of the degree. Cuban Babylon uses the hexadecimal, so far in the human record