This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.
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London Review of Books
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‘The compass retains a sense of romance. It’s pleasingly approximate, twitchy and impulsive. It feels alive in a way that Google Maps does not, partly because it is a natural instrument.’
@jjvincent.bsky.social on the history of direction: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/james-vincent/behold-the-pole-star
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