Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

The Greek mathematician, Euclid, limited the constructions in his Elements of Geometry to those that could be done with an unmarked straight edge and rudimentary compass. Ancient Roman dividers ...

A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model ...

In 1508, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system that transformed the way we view the universe. This bold theory, contrary to the geocentric ...

Their search led them to an underground chamber containing three tunnels where the ancient compass was discovered, the report ...