A Phantom Inventor: Flavio Gioia October 5, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
Who invented the compass? The Chinese, of course. Sometime between 800 and 1000 that people began to use their lodestones to navigate at sea. But the compass also appears in Europe in the eleventh or twelfth centuries and do we have a case of borrowing (from the far orient, as with playing cards) or independent […]
