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16-point compass rose from 1753 Dutch Map. ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Pair of black and white reference ...
An 8-point compass rose is a prominent feature in the logo of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. Hong Kong Correctional Services's crest uses a four-pointed compass rose. The compass rose is used as the symbol of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches. [22] A 16-point compass rose was IBM's logo for the System/360 product line.
English: replica of compass rose in Pedro Reinel's nautical chart of 1504. It is the first known wind-rose to clearly represent the fleur-de-lys. The practise was adopted in other nautical charts and survived till today.
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The bronze disk on top of the milestone is "an adaptation from ancient portolan charts of the so-called wind roses or compass roses from the points of which extended radial lines to all parts of the then known world—the prototype of the modern mariner's compass." [4] The monument has engravings on four surfaces: North: Zero Milestone
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