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Rosettes foldout: cardinal directions?
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30-06-2021, 06:49 PM
Floating compasses were around in the 12th century. I'll see if I can find the references. People knew how to stroke needles on lodestones and then float them to find magnetic north (or the Pole Star, they assumed it was pointing at that).
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