Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

Somehow, they stumbled upon papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's compass. Many are surprised to realize that modern ... in a well-illustrated and informative book by Robert Temple (The ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...