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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World
The Riddle of the Compass The Invention That Changed the World
Author: Amir D. Aczel
Sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Certainly the mariners in Amalfi in the twelfth century were. Here the compass was first invented and used in navigation, eventually helping to make Italians the world's greatest sailors. — But the story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth. It begins in ancient China around ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780151005062
ISBN-10: 0151005060
Publication Date: 8/16/2001
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
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Readable introduction. But his ideology leads him to make silly claims like that the Jesuits controlled Ming China, and were thus able to do a masssive bookburning on a scale that the First Emperor couldn't manage.


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