The North Star. This is found by using the sidewall of the Big Dipper’s bowl (on the right side) and lining up the two stars to form a line which points upward. Follow this up to the (faint) handle of ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered how a compass works? Traditional compasses (not the digital kind found in smart phones and other devices) are tools that take advantage of a natural feature of ...

Several years ago at a party I met a man who claimed that he navigated London using a compass. Fed up of following directions on his phone, he had bought a handsome, waterproof instrument and fixed it ...

Author Jerry Brotton (The History Of The World in Twelve Maps) presents a five-part series exploring the story of each of the four cardinal points of the compass in turn - with the first episode ...