InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months ago[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1image[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareaddieu [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe earliest known compasses humans used were called “zhi nan zhen,” meaning “south pointing needle.” It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
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The earliest known compasses humans used were called “zhi nan zhen,” meaning “south pointing needle.” It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.