Super interesting. Now I need to find a book on how ship design innovations during this time affected commerce and warfare.
"What Matthew Baker did in the 1570s was to take the design process out of the shipyard, and onto paper."https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-to-the-drawing-board …
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Thanks! As it happens, I only just published a follow-up piece on exactly that subject:https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-sails-force …
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What I love about that piece is that whenever we figure out a way to make more with less, the cost savings to the world are incredibly massive on the scale of billions of dollars.https://twitter.com/yemi_uc/status/1192120321148628992?s=19 …
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