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1493378236Code 5668 Antique nautical compassSmall brass nautical compass on universal joint mounted on walnut plank, English manufacture of the early 1900. The compass consists of a bronze cylindrical box, on whose bottom a hard metal stem is fixed on which it is fixed the compass card with eight winds and goniometric circle. Very good condition. Compass diameter cm 7.5, plank cm 13.5x7.5, total height 10 cm.

The use of a magnetic needle is described by the Arab scientist Bailak Al Qabajaqi: in 1242 during a travel from Tripoli in Syria to Alexandria the captain of the ship used it, putting in a pail with water 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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