COMPASS invented by Chinese, No China, No USA ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[kkacer]

Compassed was invented by Chinese 2000 years ago, no compass, Europeans couldn't arrive and discover North America, no China, no USA

The first person recorded to have used the compass as a navigational aid was Zheng He, a Chinese from China, who made seven ocean voyages between 1405 and 1433. About the 12 - 15th century, through trading, the technology spread to Arabia and then reached Europe.

the Chinese invented the compass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass http://www.universetoday.com/77072/how-does-a-compass-work/

 

[SpArK]

Congratulations for the feat.

 

[harpoon]

The first person recorded to have used the compass as a navigational aid was Zheng He (1371-1435)

So how the Roman/Greek navies operated. How Vikings navigated all the way to Britain and the Arab traders reached Kerala.

Not trying to troll..just needed some answers.

 

[SpArK]

So how the Roman/Greek navies operated. How Vikings navigated all the way to Britain and the Arab traders reached Kerala.

Not trying to troll..just needed some answers.

It was all

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[kkacer]

So how the Roman/Greek navies operated. How Vikings navigated all the way to Britain and the Arab traders reached Kerala.

Not trying to troll..just needed some answers.

there are big differences between coastal navigation and far sea navigation. google it please

 

[harpoon]

there are big differences between coastal navigation and far sea navigation. google please

Dude Arab traders crossed Arabian Sea and reached Kerala. Thats not Coastal navigation and all this happened in 8th, 9th centuries.

 

[kkacer]

Dude Arab traders crossed Arabian Sea and reached Kerala. Thats not Coastal navigation and all this happened in 8th, 9th centuries.

rofl, google COMPASS by yourself. many information written by experts on internet, don't argue with me.

 

[harpoon]

rofl, google COMPASS by yourself. many information written by experts on internet, don't argue with me.

If you don't want to argue why you are in this forum in the first place or better why open this thread??

 

[amidamaru]

there are big differences between coastal navigation and far sea navigation. google it please

the vikings discovered americas in the 10th century!!! so i still think he deserves answers lol

people used to navigate using the sun and the stars, it is not that difficult. compass was basically just a 101 book for dummies.

geez even after westerners had a compass, they still used to stars.

also you try to act like the west stole technology of you people, but the truth is, nothing was stolen, it would of come about through trade. or capturing enemy equipment. you cannot even begin to compare it to chinas theft of western technology today.

and hey arabs discovered numbers, they discovered mathmatics, they discovered writing... without this, china would still be illiterate. so i guess by your standards in the past.. and since you accuse westerners of stealing chinese technology even they they never really had much to do with each other , i guess china stole technology off the arabs?? which would of been well before you met any europeans, so that makes china the first technological theif?

 

[kkacer]

If you don't want to argue why you are in this forum in the first place or better why open this thread??

COMPASS and The Age of Discovery = The mid-to-late 15th century has quite rightly been called the AGE OF EXPLORATION and Discovery. It was an age in which European sailors and ships left the coastal waters of the Old World and embarked on their adventure on the vast "green sea of darkness.

The compass later came into common use in the west during the 14th century AD. This led to what is now known as the Age of Exploration where major European powers started further exploration of the World including North and South America. While the compass was just one of the devices that brought about this golden age of exploration it played an important part in bring it to pass. Even now modern navigation still relies on compasses and the more accurate maps they helped to develop.

How Does a Compass Work

Columbus - Compass By the time Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic with two caravels and a carrack, navigators were old hands at using the Chinese compass to orient themselves. Early compasses were a lodestone (natural earth magnet) attached to a disc floating in liquid or balanced on a central pin.

 

[INDIC]

If you don't want to argue why you are in this forum in the first place or better why open this thread??

Didn't Romans reach Muziris Port and Arikamedu port for spice trade with India in first century AD.

Indo-Roman trade and relations

 

[lkozhi]

Chinese were the first to trade with us. Most of our trade was east bound till arabs arrived.
Calicut Heritage: A New Look at Calicut's China Ties
Instead of fighting we should live and trade peacefully for we did that for centuries in the past.

 

[kkacer]

the vikings discovered americas in the 10th century!!! so i still think he deserves answers lol

all wrong, vikings reached Queenlands only with no firmly evidence.

Columbus - Compass By the time Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic with two caravels and a carrack, navigators were old hands at using the Chinese compass to orient themselves. Early compasses were a lodestone (natural earth magnet) attached to a disc floating in liquid or balanced on a central pin.

The compass later came into common use in the west during the 14th century AD. This led to what is now known as the Age of Exploration where major European powers started further exploration of the World including North and South America. While the compass was just one of the devices that brought about this golden age of exploration it played an important part in bring it to pass. Even now modern navigation still relies on compasses and the more accurate maps they helped to develop.

How Does a Compass Work

 

[amidamaru]

The magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as the Chinese Han Dynasty, and was used "in the search for gems and the selection of sites for houses."The compass was used in Song Dynasty China by the military for navigational orienteering by 1040-1044,and was used for maritime navigation by 1117. The use of a compass is recorded in Western Europe between 1187 and 1202 and in Persia in 1232. The dry compass was invented in Europe around 1300.This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.


some evidence points to china having the compass well before what is in this thread..

but fact remains, europeans used a compass a very long time before you chinese have stated.. and there is absolutely no evidence anywhere that westerners got this technology from china... and because of this, one can only conclude westerners discovered the compass by themselves, albeit a long time after china originally did

 

[kkacer]

The magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as the Chinese Han Dynasty, and was used "in the search for gems and the selection of sites for houses."The compass was used in Song Dynasty China by the military for navigational orienteering by 1040-1044,and was used for maritime navigation by 1117. The use of a compass is recorded in Western Europe between 1187 and 1202 and in Persia in 1232. The dry compass was invented in Europe around 1300.This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.


some evidence points to china having the compass well before what is in this thread..

but fact remains, europeans used a compass a very long time before you chinese have stated.. and there is absolutely no evidence anywhere that westerners got this technology from china... and because of this, one can only conclude westerners discovered the compass by themselves, albeit a long time after china originally did

tell me the evidence (europeans used a compass a very long time before you chinese have stated) or stop bullxhit. i feel so sad for u .