Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c15.26

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c15.26

(3) Mariner's compass: Mookerji points out a compass on one of the ships in which the Hindus of the early Christian era sailed out to colonize Java and other islands in the Indian Ocean. The Hindu compass was an iron fish (called in Sanskrit *matsya-yantra* or fish machine). It floated in a vessel of oil and pointed to the north.

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