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1575556976Code 6480 Antique compassRare magnetic compass for nautical surveying, pocket brass, signed Plan Ltd Neuchatel Switzerland n. 35156 of 1918 made for U.S Engineer Corps. It is a small compass, diameter 5.3 cm-inch 2.1 height 1.8 cm, 0.6 inch; typically used in pleasure sailing, therefore on boats less subject to magnetic deviation. It can also be held in the hand and therefore away from the magnetic fields of the boat. It is equipped with a sighting system with a goniometric compass card with eight winds to measure the angle between the line of sight and the north indicated by the magnetic needle. Complete with needle lock. Very good condition.

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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