Roman Numeral 4 On Clock Face

Roman numeral clocks hour 4.

Roman numeral 4 on clock face.

Check the hands checkbox to display animated hour minute and second hands. Shown above is the black and white clock image with roman. One tradition says the iiii form was used to avoid invoking the wrath of the roman god jupiter whose latin name ivppiter begins with iv. Round clock with roman numerals showing time 4 58.

Commonly roman numerals are written this way. Since this is a question that we have been asked many times we wanted to share with you some explanations on this. Optical balance is re established by printing an also heavy iiii. Roman numerals originated in ancient rome approximately 1000bc and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout europe well into the late middle ages long after the decline of the roman empire.

You find you have four x s four v s and 20 i s or four identical sets of xviiiii. Drag sliders below to adjust the size diameter of the clock face template number font size number set in and tick line lengths. Roman numeral clocks hour 4. The notations iv and ix can be read as one less than five 4 and one less than ten 9 although there is a tradition favouring representation of 4 as iiii on roman numeral clocks.

Clock faces roman numerals. This one was scanned from a circa 1902 printers book. 2 other common uses include year numbers on monuments and buildings and copyright dates on the title screens of movies and television programs. Although you probably learned iv as the roman numeral 4 in elementary school jerry clock faces often show iiii instead.

Imagine a watch face with roman numerals and look at the numerals opposite to each other all of them are in perfect balance except for the heavy viii and the light iv. The clipart gallery of plain clocks hour 4 offers 60 images of clocks showing the time from 4 00 to 4 59 in one minute intervals. Everything about this one is so fancy including the hands the roman numerals and the base. His conjecture was as follows.

Regarding the use of roman numeral iiii vs. Roman numerals clocks one theory is the french king louis xiv 1638 1715 is said to have preferred iiii over iv on clock faces. Count the number of x s v s and i s on a clock face that has iiii. Clock parts clip art.

These clock part clip art images were from an old french catalog. Iv on clocks i noticed iiii on clocks a long time ago and when i happened to meet a clockmaker i asked. As a result of this he ordered all the clock makers in france to use only iiii on clocks. Next we have a very ornate clock face clip art.

Without a definitive reason we offer v theories for the discrepancy.