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 invention of the compass promoted maritime undertakings, and its use soon spread to the Arab world, and thence to Europe. China's four great ancient inventions made tremendous contributions to ...

The invention of the wheel was a transformative ... relying on the stars. The Chinese created the first compass between the ninth and eleventh centuries. It was made of lodestone, an inherently ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China ... While inventions and technological discoveries such as gunpowder, paper, printing, the magnetic compass and efficient ...