The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed The World: The Invention that Changed the World – The Entertaining Story of Navigation from China to Italy - Softcover

Aczel, Amir D.

 
9780156007535: The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed The World: The Invention that Changed the World – The Entertaining Story of Navigation from China to Italy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0156007533 ISBN 13: 9780156007535
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the stone's use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians, more than a thousand years later, who discovered the ultimate destiny of the lodestone and unleashed its formidable powers. In Amalfi sometime in the twelfth century, the compass was born, crowning the Italians as the new rulers of the seas and heralding the onset of the modern world. Retracing the roots of the compass and sharing the fascinating story of navigation through the ages, The Riddle of the Compass is Aczel at his most entertaining and insightful.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Amir D. Aczel, Ph.D. grew up on a ship and was navigating straits in the Mediterranean long before he could drive a car. The author of Fermat's Last Theorem, God's Equation, The Mystery of the Aleph, and Probability 1, he lives with his wife and daughter in the Boston area and teaches at Bentley College.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0156007533
ISBN 13 
9780156007535
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
202
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