What's a Chinese compass like and how does it work? Two international students explored a museum in China's Quanzhou to gain insights into the Chinese compass and its rich cultural history.

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE).

What's a Chinese compass like and how does it work? Two international students explored a museum in China's Quanzhou to gain ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

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