Abstract
Histories of magnetism and the mariner's compass have usually been restricted to a few brief descriptions by Alexander Neckam, Guyot de Provins and Jacques de Vitry, followed by the important Epistola de Magnete of of Peter Peregrinus (1269). But by reviewing the many other early European references to the mariner's compass, we find that there is little in Peregrinus that originating, knowledge of the compass.
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