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#Compass: Combat Providence Analysis System (#コンパス【戦闘摂理解析システム】, #Konpasu Sentō Setsuri Kaiseki Shisutemu) is a Japanese multiplayer online battle arena video game created by NHN PlayArt and Dwango. It was released for iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire devices in December 2016 in Japan and in November 2019 in China.
The compass in the Four Great Inventions was formerly the compass of ancient China. It is a kind of direction-indicating tool, which is widely used in navigation, field exploration and other fields. In ancient times, it had a profound influence on trade, war and cultural exchange.
C.a.R.– Compass and Ruler (also known as Z.u.L., which stands for the German "Zirkel und Lineal") — is a free and open source interactive geometry app that can do geometrical constructions in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. The software is Java based. The author is René Grothmann of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Mimar Sinan (Ottoman Turkish: معمار سينان, romanized: Mi'mâr Sinân; Turkish: Mimar Sinan, pronounced [miːˈmaːɾ siˈnan]; c. 1488/1490 – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III.
He then uses the compass to determine the north point, the meridian (khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār), and the qibla towards Mecca. This is the first mention of a compass in a medieval Islamic scientific text and its earliest known use as a qibla indicator, although al-Ashraf did not claim to be the first to use it for this purpose.
The Architect's Apprentice (Turkish: Ustam ve Ben, My Master and Me) is a 2013 historical fiction novel by Elif Shafak, set in the 16th century Ottoman Empire.Shafak originally wrote the novel in English and assisted its translation into Turkish. [1]
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Song dynasty figurine of a man holding a compass. The compass is a magnetometer used for navigation and orientation that shows direction in regards to the geographic cardinal points. The structure of a compass consists of the compass rose, which displays the four main directions on it: East (E), South (S), West (W) and North (N). The angle ...