2-361-741 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The first pivoted needle compass, c1269 (1956). From Epistola de Magnete the first treatise on magnets, written by French scholar Pierre de Maricourt (Petrus Peregrinus). A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.