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 ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass ... the ancient Chinese carved characters on pottery ...

Its dynasties gave rise to incredible inventions like paper, gunpowder, and the compass ... Even today, Chinese culture ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient ... While inventions and technological discoveries such as gunpowder, paper, printing, the magnetic compass and efficient animal ...