Show WHY IY I Minutes and Hours Came to Bo Be Computed at Sixty Sixt Sixty seconds snake make a minute GO CO minutes make muke an hour You used to sa say bay that as ns often otten as you did 10 mills make u tl cent 10 cents make a dime and make a dollar It Is b believed In fact filet certain learned men have bare said it has been proved pro that the scheme of dividing the hour Into CO parts un und and the minute Into 60 parts part was Invented or devised by the ancient Babylonians long centuries before the Christian era It Is one of ot the ways WItS of ut counting time which has hus gone unchanged un unchanged un un- changed during the past vust or 10 years Along with the decimal s system stem In ancient on- on in indent dent Babylon there was the sex mal mul system based upon the count by sixties and originating In n the discovery that there Is 18 no number which has so soman man many divisions as GO CO for It can cnn be bo divided without a remainder by 2 3 3 4 i 1 5 C G 10 12 15 20 and 30 divided the sons son's path lute Into 2 1 para angs a It being about four and und a half The fhe astronomers astronomers as as- of that time In Babylon compared the progress of the sun during during dur dur- Ing ing one hour bout to the progress that would be he made by a n good walker In Inthe Inthe inthe the same length of time each going about one or four and one- one half miles Thus the whole course comBe of the sun so the wIse ulse astronomers of ot Babylon thought was 24 or de degrees Tee or 24 4 hours and each or 01 hour was divided Into GO CO parts which we call minutes The stor story Is that the Greek philosopher who lived l a century n and d a n half before Christ Introduced the time Babylonian hour Into Europe and we have ha counted the time of ot day In ih seconds minutes and hours ever since |