Hello; Was watching a program on History Channel regarding a CHinese direction sensing machine. Its design was brilliantly simple. Its a bullock cart sized machine with bevel gears and a pointer to show the direction. Here whenever the user embarks on a long journey he sets the pointer to point towards his hometown(starting point). Now, after this, which ever way he turns the pointer points towards his hometown hence showing him the way back or the way forward.
Did Indian travellers use such equipment or were we so good in reading the sun and stars that we dint need such mahcines.? There had to have been some method of Direction Sensing as otherwise people tend to walk in circles.
whereas the original indian vastu sastra was based on the sun and its movement, chinese feng shui was based on a magnet based compass loupan. but of recent its beleived the south americans may have used magenetic compasses earlier.
Hi Mr.Venketesh; Ive always belived that the CHinese civilisation based most of its early stage studies on Technology like magnets, etc. We on the other hand based our studies on astronomy. They have a number of inventions to thier name but we dont inspite of the fact that we would also have faced the same challenges and would surely have come up with solutions. Astronomy is something, i feel, which have used extensively for even the most basic of challenges. Is it that or like some many other instances we were just incredibly lazy to record our activites. This is another case where these two civilisations have taken completely different paths when faced with similar challenges.
h; > Ive always belived that the CHinese civilisation based most of its early > stage studies on Technology like magnets, etc. > We on the other hand based our studies on astronomy.
the chinese were incredibly curious people. a lot of their philosophy is based on asking questions. the fertile field for innovation is an area where questions are asked.
> They have a number of inventions to thier name but we dont inspite of the > fact that we would also have faced the same challenges and would surely have > come up with solutions. Astronomy is something, i feel, which have used > extensively for even the most basic of challenges. > Is it that or like some many other instances we were just incredibly lazy to > record our activites. > This is another case where these two civilisations have taken completely > different paths when faced with similar challenges. > > Regards > Rahul >