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1812201213019734Code 3365 Vintage French compassSmall travel compass, square shaped, oak wood, French manufacture end XIX century, with goniometri circle engraved on brass plate and stop of needle to calculate angles. Very good condition. Measures cm 7.5x7.5 - inches 2.95x2.95.

The Greeks and the Romans didn't know the possibility to use magnetic fields for orient, but this possibility probably was known by the Chinese people: about in 2600 B.C. Hoang-Ti the emperor won Tchi-Yeou the prince using a magic cart, the See-Nan (cart indicating the South), finding the way of escape of the enemy that has been covered by smoke: on this cart there was a rotating human shaped figure with an arm stretched indicating the South (obviously indicating the North too, but the South was the most important cardinal point for the Chinese people). The Chinese people used magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they indicated south like a magic, amazing the public.

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