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| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2024 3:58 p.m. PST |
…Devised a Primitive Battle Tank
"WITH WARFARE in the 17th century dominated by sieges, cannons, artillery and muskets, the introduction of something akin to an armoured tank would have been a game-changer. Such was the thinking of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).
Best known as inventor of the calculus and binary arithmetic and renowned in his own day and ours as a mathematician and philosopher, Leibniz was a universal genius who made innovative contributions to numerous disciplines, including the art of war…" Main page
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paints brigs for the British fleet.