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RM EC7R66–Magnetism was originally used, not for navigation, but for geomancy and fortune-telling by the Chinese. The earliest Chinese magnetic compasses ... ... compass. Although the Chinese knew about the importance of magnetic fields and invented the compass, it was the Europeans who initially used it for sea ... The Chinese invented the magnetic compass to help determine the correct direction. They used this in city planning at first, but it became very important to ... Nov 1, 2011 ... Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the magnetic compass ... invented in China by then. It has been corrected to ... A brief introduction glimpses at the history of the magnetic compass in Europe and China and mentions previously known early Arabic sources on the instrument ... ... Chinese found that such a needle, when freely suspended, pointed north-south. The magnetic compass soon spread to Europe. Columbus used it when he crossed ... Dec 13, 2021 ... Since no two ships have the same magnetic field, the correct placement of the corrective magnets is unique to each one. There was a further ... Oct 22, 2022 ... The Chinese magnetic compass joined gunpowder and many other developments in shaping history. Yet at first, its potential was not realized. By ... Technologies and products such as silk, gun powder, the magnetic compass, papermaking, movable type, and porcelain were first invented in China. However ... It was in China that the first magnetic compasses were used, during the ancient ... enclosed by a box, and were used to determine the direction, alongside the ...