In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction. By Ian Volner Ian Volner writes about architecture, design and ...

Jerry Brotton's new book uncovers the ways in which seemingly simple coordinates shape the way we perceive our world, ...

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

A conventional compass points north (well, to magnetic north, anyway). [Videoschmideo] wanted to make a compass that pointed somewhere specific. In particular, the compass — a wedding gift ...

The directions are at \(90°\) angles on the compass rose. The four ordinal directions are Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Southwest (SW) and Northwest (NW). They are halfway between the cardinal ...

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with ...

Cancel any time. Well, there’s a long history of differing opinions on the subject before current acceptance of the four cardinal points of the compass, with north holding the top spot ...