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Antique compasses/5823A-American compass 1900
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1515761933Code 5823A American compass 19005823a Antique liquid compass on universal joint and located in a oak wooden box with slit cover, compass card with 16 winds with goniometric circle. American manufacture of the early XIX century. It can be mounted on a walnut plank made on measure, to be better exposed on a desk. Very good condition. Measures cm 13.4x13.4x9 (h).

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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