of the compass that allowed people to locate themselves and to travel. It opened the world for exploration and allowed merchants to explore commercial markets beyond their own immediate home towns. While people had previously navigated by using the stars, the compass offered a vastly improved tool...
“The different looses may now be divided into the slash in the loose, which may degenerate into the snatch or may be improved into the steady continuous loose. The chief contrast to this is the dead loose, which in strong hands is very useful. This consists of the simple opening of the...