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Code 7925
EUR 650.00
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1715250933Code 7925 Small CompassSmall traveller's pocket compass, in turned brass from the Victorian era, late 19th century England, rose on sixteen-twenty copper plate engraving paper complete with protractor circle, complete with compass needle block.
Very good state of conservation and perfectly functional. Compass diameter 4.5 cm – 1.8 inches, height 1.5 cm – 0.6 inches.
The invention of the compass is surrounded by a legendary halo; However, it is known that the discovery of magnetite, a material capable of attracting iron, occurred in Magnesia, a city in Asia Minor from which this stone takes its name. At the beginning of the 14th century, Giordano da Pisa spoke of the magnet as "very useful and necessary" for navigation. Dante in Paradiso XII 29 also demonstrates that he knows the peculiarity of the magnetized needle pointing north.
The foundations of the use of the magnetized needle in navigation are described by the Arab scientist Bailak Al Qabajaqi, who in 1242, during a sea voyage from Tripoli in Syria to Alexandria, saw it used by the ship's commander: he placed it in a bucket floating a needle stuck in a piece of cork and placing a magnet near it to magnetize the needle; when he removed the magnetic stone, the needle immediately positioned itself in a north-south direction.
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