| 항해 나침반의 사용 시점에 관한 동서양 비교 연구 |
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김성준, 허일, 최운봉 |
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| Research on Identifying the Period for Seafarers to use Mariner’s Compass in the East and the West |
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Sung-june Kim, Ihl Hugh, Yun-feng Cui |
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Up to now it has been widely conceived that mariner’s compass was introduced to Europe from China via the Arabic people. But the proofs to support the above orthodox dissertation have not been found yet. In general it has been approved hat the Chinese used the compass for navigation in the 11th century and European did in the 12th century. During the above period the communication between the Europe and the China was made only by the mediation of the Arabic people. But it is known that the beginning of Arabic people’s compass usage was one century later than that of the European. It may raise a historical question about ‘was mariner’s compass introduced to Europe from China via the Arabic people?’ In this paper the authors tried to prove the simultaneity of the mariner’s compass usage by the European with the Chinese by reviewing historical materials and modern researches. The results are as following; The first, there is a strong similarity in the evolving steps of compass appliance of both civilizations, such as from using magnetized and pivoted needle to fixing card thereto. Second, the Chinese and the European started to use the mariner’s compass almost at the same time, and they developed it independently. |
| Key Words:
lodestone;magnetic compass;floating magnetized needle;pivoted magnetized needle;compass card |
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