There is a story that the first Chin emperor used the divining board and compass in court to affirm his right to the throne. Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was ...

In Poland, archaeologists came across a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged ... this was the third time such a specimen was found in Poland. The group used ground-penetrating radar to ...

It was here that they discovered a 500-year-old compass just like the one Copernicus ... during his free time.’ While Copernicus would later spend time at both the University of Bologna and ...