Like most old skills, there's something deeply satisfying about getting where you want to go with the humble compass. I remember the feeling of accomplishment upon completing a 10-mile crossing in ...

At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in a cup of water. The water in such a configuration ...

Dividers and compasses are drawing instruments that have been used since antiquity to measure distances, transfer lengths from one drawing to another, and draw circles. The Greek mathematician, Euclid ...