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Joseph Svinth
23rd September 2000, 04:05
A museum site on the geometry of war, 1500-1750.

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/content.htm

The point? Think of sacred geometry, Thibaust's circles in fencing, ballistics, star fortifications, and telescopes. Mathematics "make" warfare scientific...



[Edited by Joseph Svinth on 09-22-2000 at 10:07 PM]