-It is generally admitted that the Chinese used the compass at a very early period to guide them in their joumov's across the vast plains of Tartary, They made little images, the arms of which, moved by a ireely-suspended magnet, pointed continually towards tho north, An apparatus of this kind was presented to ambassadors from Cochin China to guide them -on their homeward journey, some 1100 years before tho Christian ora. The knowledge thus possessed seems gradually to have travelled westward by means of the Arabs, though it was over 2DOO years afterwards before it was generally applied among the peoples of Western Euione,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19100317.2.37.3
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 14784, 17 March 1910, Page 5
Word Count
104Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 14784, 17 March 1910, Page 5
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.