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1579687870Code 6543 Antique compassLiquid compass on universal joint signed STAR Boston 46723 from the early 1900s, complete with original wooden box with slot cover and mounted on a walnut board. The compass consists of a cylindrical box made of brass and bronze, on the bottom of which a hard metal stem is fixed, on which the eight-wind compass card is placed and complete with a goniometric circle. Very good condition and in perfect working order. Compass diameter 9 cm, board size 15.5x6.5 cm, box size 13.5x13.5 h 10.3 cm - 5.3x5.3 h 4 inches.

The Greeks and the Romans didn't know the possibility to use magnetic fields for orient, but this possibility probably was known by the Chinese people: about in 2600 B.C. Hoang-Ti the emperor won Tchi-Yeou the prince using a magic cart, the See-Nan (cart indicating the South), finding the way of escape of the enemy that has been covered by smoke: on this cart there was a rotating human shaped figure with an arm stretched indicating the South (obviously indicating the North too, but the South was the most important cardinal point for the Chinese people). The Chinese people used magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they indicated south like a magic, amazing the public.

Antique compasses are measuring instruments that had always a large public of collectors, that choose them between all antique instruments.

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