On 29 February, 2024 there was the book launch of the Festschrift Custos Divitiarum in honour of Joseph Schirò which was held at the National Library of Malta in Valletta. The event was very well-attended and the speakers were James Licari, the President of the Malta Association of Professional Conservator-Restorers, who took the initiative to […]
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Compass Rose
Sometimes called a wind rose, a compass rose is a small starlike device used to indicate direction, often found in combination with radiating rhumb lines. North is usually indicated by a pointer on the compass rose. The points of the compass mark the divisions of the four cardinal directions: North, South, East, West. The number of points may be only the 4 cardinal points, or the 8 principal points adding the intercardinal (or ordinal) directions northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW). Further intermediate points are added to give the sixteen points of a wind compass as shown in the map below.