Book ID: CBB000102402

The Riddle of the Compass. The Invention that Changed the World (2001)

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Aczel, Amir D. (Author)


Harcourt


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 178 pp.
Language: English

Description Popular account of magnetic compass.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Lock, Jeffrey D.
Guan, Zengjian
Xin Bai
Nayar, Sheila J.
Wlodkowski, Paul
Ingersoll, Alex Monroe
Journals
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Perspectives on Science
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
History of Psychiatry
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
W. W. Norton & Co.
Springer
Professional Surveyors Publishing Co.
Palgrave Macmillan
Octavo Corp
Concepts
Compasses
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Instruments, navigational
Navigation
Engineering
Mathematics
People
Galilei, Galileo
Verbiest, Ferdinand
Mascheroni, Lorenzo
Krylov, Aleksei Nikolaevich
Hilbert, David
Gallaccini, Teofilo
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
19th century
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Early modern
Places
China
New South Wales (Australia)
London (England)
United States
Russia
Italy
Institutions
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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