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1525863012Code 5735 Stoppani compassBrass topographic compass signed Stoppani placed in its original walnut box. 1915 circa. The compass consists of a magnetized needle free to rotate on a horizontal plane, marking with its point the direction of the magnetic north, compass card with four winds complete with a goniometric circle engraved in 360 °, complete with the lock of the compass needle and double sights placed in the compass compartment. Excellent condition fully functional. Compass cm 9x8.2x2.8 - inches 3.54x3.22x1.1; box cm 10.5x10x3.3 - inches 4.13x3.9x1.29.

Stoppani is a Swiss manufacturer created in 1913 and located in Bern, that still exists today.

The invention of compass is mysterious but it is well known that magnetite was discovered in Magnesia, a city of Asia Minor. At the beginning of ‘300 Giordano da Pisa spoke about magnet as “very useful and necessary” in navigation. Dante in Paradise XII 29 wrote about magnetic needle that indicates the North.

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