For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other– Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.

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Anaximander was a Greek philosopher who lived circa 610 BC. He was also the first scientist to propose that time is an absolute, not relative, concept. It was because of this belief that he chose the stick as the symbol for time.

Source: Cosmos

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