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Gurney, Alan. Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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GURNEY, Alan. Compass; a story of exploration and innovation. Norton. 320p. illus, notes, bibliog, index, c2004. 0-393-32713-2. $13.95. SA *
Gurney, formerly a yacht designer and now a writer living in Suffolk, England, has written a richly detailed history of the most important navigational device of all time--the magnetic compass. Occupying a critically important space between its ancestral roots (the primitive lodestone) and its late 20th-century descendents (the gyrocompass and GPS technology), the magnetic compass, born of the need for a reliable means of ...
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