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King, David A. (1983). "The Astronomy of the Mamluks". Isis. 74 (4): 531–555. doi: 10.1086/353360. S2CID 144315162. Step 3: Press down the needle, turn the knob at the top of the compass to draw a circle or arc, and dragthe pencil around the center to draw the curve. Webb Aintablian, Xanthe (June 28, 2018). "An Overview and History of the Compass". thoughtco.com. Dotdash. Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Gurney, Alan (2004) Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation, London: Norton, ISBN 0-393-32713-2

The first compasses in ancient Han dynasty China were made of lodestone, a naturally magnetized ore of iron. [2] [10] Later compasses were made of iron needles, magnetized by striking them with a lodestone, which appeared in China by 1088 during the Song Dynasty, as described by Shen Kuo. [11] Dry compasses began to appear around 1300 in Medieval Europe and the Islamic world. [12] [7] This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass. [13] Design A liquid-filled protractor or orienteering compass with lanyard These fractional points are named by appending, for example 1 / 4east, 1 / 2east, or 3 / 4east to the name of one of the 32 points. Each of the 96 fractional points can be named in two ways, depending on which of the two adjoining whole points is used, for example, N 3 / 4E is equivalent to NbE 1 / 4N. Either form is easily understood, but alternative conventions as to correct usage developed in different countries and organisations. "It is the custom in the United States Navy to box from north and south toward east and west, with the exception that divisions adjacent to a cardinal or inter-cardinal point are always referred to that point." [8] The Royal Navy used the additional "rule that quarter points were never read from a point beginning and ending with the same letter." [9] The eight principal winds (or main winds) are the set union of the cardinals and intercardinals. Taken in turn, each is 45° from the next. These form the 8-wind compass rose, the rose at its usual basic level today.verso". WordReference.com . Retrieved December 2, 2018. English translation: towards, toward, close to, near to Bowditch, Nathaniel (1916). American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. United States Hydrographic Office. p. 15. Apart from navigational compasses, other specialty compasses have also been designed to accommodate specific uses. These include: In Estonian, Finnish, Breton, the "Italianate system", and Telugu, the intercardinals have distinct words. [3] a b Gade, Kenneth (2016). "The Seven Ways to Find Heading" (PDF). The Journal of Navigation. 69 (5): 955–970. doi: 10.1017/S0373463316000096. S2CID 53587934. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.

Kemp, Peter, ed. (1988). "Box the Compass". The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. Oxford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-19-282084-2. Lee, Robert E. (2011). "Compass Rose". University of Washington. Archived from the original on February 21, 2015.A ruler or straight edge. Any rigid material will suffice. I prefer steel rulers, but as long as you avoid soft bendy rulers, you should be OK. Avoid notched edges. a b See Wiktionary definitions: north; northeast; east; southeast; south; southwest; west; northwest The traditional compass rose of eight winds (and its 16-wind and 32-wind derivatives) was invented by seafarers in the Mediterranean Sea during the Middle Ages (with no obvious connection to the twelve classical compass winds of the ancient Greeks and Romans). The traditional mariner's wind names were expressed in Italian, or more precisely, the Italianate Mediterranean lingua franca common among sailors in the 13th and 14th centuries, which was principally composed of Genoese ( Ligurian), mixed with Venetian, Sicilian, Provençal, Catalan, Greek, and Arabic terms from around the Mediterranean basin. A pencil. Nice and sharp, not too hard. In most of the world, these are referred to as "HB". In the US, they are called "#2". It is possible to construct circles,arcs, bisect lines,angles bisectors and determine midpoints using a compass. The steps to draw a circle using a compass are: