New Simon Stevin's Sand Yacht, 1600
Sand yachts convey an fifty-fifty longer history. Simon Stevin, military machine engineer to Prince Mauritz of Nassau, and, incidentally, the inventor of the decimal system, built this ane for the Prince inward 1600. The engraving shows the proud possessor doing twenty miles an hr on the beach at Schreveningen. He had merely beaten the Castilian invaders at the Battle of Nieuport together with the captured Admiral Don Mendoza is amid the passengers he is seeking to impress.
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