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1670241153Code 7424 Victorian Travel CompassSmall pocket compass for travelers, from the Victorian era, England late 19th century, of brass, compass card on paper with sixteen winds, complete with goniometric circle.
Very good condition and in perfect working order. Compass cm 4,5 x 1,5 inches 1.8 x 0.6.
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.
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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