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Code 8141
EUR 600.00
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1746007461Code 8141 Magnetic CompassRare magnetic compass for nautical bearing, pocket in brass, signed Gruchon & Emons Paris N. 81 of 1918, made for U.S Engineer Corps and in use by officers during the First World War. It is a small compass, diameter cm 5.5 - inch 2.4 height cm 1.8, inch 0.6; typically used in sailing pleasure navigation, therefore on boats less subject to magnetic deviation. It can also be held in the hand and therefore away from magnetic fields. It is equipped with a sighting system with target and an eight-wind goniometric rose so as to make it possible to measure the angle between the line of sight and the north indicated by the magnetic needle. Complete with needle lock. Good condition.
The Greeks and Romans were still unaware of the possibility of using magnetic fields to orient themselves, while it seems that this possibility was already somehow known to the Chinese: around 2600 BC, the emperor Hoang-Ti managed to defeat Prince Tchi-Yeou in battle thanks to a "magic" chariot, the See-Nan (chariot indicating the south). The emperor, thanks to this device, identified the enemy's escape route, even though the enemy had hidden it with a blanket of smoke: a human-shaped wooden figure was fixed to the chariot, which rotated on itself and which, with its arm outstretched, always pointed towards the south (indicating the south obviously also indicated the north at the same time, but the south was considered by the Chinese to be the most important cardinal point).
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