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hunts4deer said:
If you get one with degree numbers on the dial, it should read 0 at N and S and go to 90 at E and W. Bearings would be given such as "south 40 degrees east".

Running 0 to 360 is a newer method, but I'm not sure when that started.

Through out most of the nineteenth century as before compasses were boxed instead of degrees. 32 points, north, north by west, 1/32, n/nw, nw/n nw, nw/w ect. It wasn't until the twentieth century that degrees became common, even though degrees were known and used in circles back to Mesopotamia.
 
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