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1912015161137734Code 3626A Compass early 1900Brass compass signed Observator Rotterdam early '900, and mounted on gimbals on wooden walnut plank. Compass card with eight winds with goniometric circle. Good condition original patina working perfectly. Diameter cm 23,4 width cm 30,5, height cm 19.

Bases for using a magnetic needle are described by the Arab scientist Bailak Al Qabajaqi: in 1242 during a travel from Tripoli in Syria to Alexandria the captain of ship used it, putting in a pail with water, on its surface, a piece of cork with a needle and magnetizing it with a magnet; the needle moved immediately in the North-South direction.

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