...(iays Morifotus) will have the inventors of this wonderful [Pixis náutica] compafs to be either Danes or Germans, becaufe the thirty-two points on it are...and pronounced in the Dutch or Teutonic language, by all nations ufmg the fea ; though this may, perhaps, only prove the improvement of the compafs by...

...the compass must be the invention of the Danes, Dutch or Germans, because the thirty-two points of it are written and pronounced in the Dutch or Teutonic language, has no better grounds than the English claim from the words compass or box. Vincentius Belluacensis, and Albertus Magnus, who lived...