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1528985791Code 5995 Compass 1940sSmall brass travel compass with cover, compass card with eight winds and chromium-plated brass goniometric circle complete with needle block to calculate horizontal angles. German manufacture of the forties, signed PIC Germany, made for the foreign market. Excellent condition fully functional. Diameter 4.5 cm - 1.77 inches, thickness 1.5 cm - 0.59 inches.

The first hints in Europe on the use of instruments using magnetic fields for orientation are dated back to the late twelfth century, especially thanks to the knowledge brought by merchants and sailors after contacts with the Arabs: we find hints in the work by Alexander Neckam "De nominibus utensilium" and in the works by Guyot de Provins, where the magnet is called "sailor's friend". Even the inventory of a Sicilian ship of 1200's, the San Nicolò, refers to the presence on board of a magnet and a "bussola di ligno", that is a wooden compass.

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