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Antique compasses/6116-Vintage compass
Antique compasses/6116-Vintage compass
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1543491778Code 6116 Vintage compassSmall pocket compass made of oak and brass, complete with compass card with eight winds, goniometric circle and locking of the compass needle for the calculation of horizontal angles. German manufacture of the late nineteenth century. Excellent condition fully functional. Cm 8x8 H 3 - inches 3.14x3.14 H 1.18.

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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