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1509721527Code 5787 Nautical compassSmall nautical liquid compass on universal joint mounted on walnut plank, signed by Star Boston, made in the early 1900s. This compass has a brass cylindrical box, named mortar; on its bottom a hard metal stem is fixed, named sensitive element; on this element it is leaned a compass card, appropriately fixed: the zero has to coincide with magnetic polarity. Very good condition and in order. Plank width cm 13.5x7, compass diameter 7.5 cm.

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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