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If you have a compass it's easy remember opposits attrack sames repell. If you bring the magnet near the north pole of the compass and it swings away thats the north ploe if it follows the maget as you move it around the compass it's the south ploe of the magnet.
Sound like, what came first the chicken or the egg.
This case the compass must have been first, or else the north pole would be north charged?
Wonder if many civilizations being North of the equator considered they were on top of the world(northern half). Maybe our maps and Globes should be upside down, so the north pole is at the North pole.
I think they made a mistake and could never correct it, north pole up?
If you didn't have a compass, you could still try to make your bar magnets swing freely, with a thread, or by placing it on a light and flat floating material, which is on still water.
Sound like, what came first the chicken or the egg.
This case the compass must have been first, or else the north pole would be north charged?
Wonder if many civilizations being North of the equator considered they were on top of the world(northern half). Maybe our maps and Globes should be upside down, so the north pole is at the North pole.
I think they made a mistake and could never correct it, north pole up?
They defined the direction toward the north pole as north in geographical terms. Then they defined the point of the magnetic compass that pointed towards north as magnetic north. There is no mistake, just 2 different definitions of north. The north geographical pole is a south magnetic pole.
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