Antik China Compas
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As use of the compass continued the ancient chinese added other markings on the brass.
Antik china compas. The compass was invented as a divination tool by chinese fortune tellers who used the lodestones to construct their fortune telling boards. We find the first use of a magnetic compass in ancient china. Four great inventions of ancient china compass early in the spring and autumn period 770 476bc while mining ores and melting copper and iron chinese people chanced upon a natural magnetite that attracted iron and pointed fixedly north.
The compass was invented as a divination tool by chinese fortune tellers who used the lodestones to construct their fortune telling boards. There is a special type of mineral magnetite called a lodestone that is a permanent and natural. Later chinese compass versions.
Used in ancient china as early as the qin dynasty 221 bce 207 bce or before chinese compasses were invented for more than just helping people find their way when traveling. Ancient china compass original compasses.