This extraordinary war machine is another example of Leonardo's creativity in his desire to impress his patrons with new forms of military strategies.
Here he proposed to equip an armed boat with a new type of devastating "circular multiple bombard", a system of 12 cannons mounted on a rotating platform.
The cannons would be firing simultaneously as such to prevent the boat from shifting from its desired course.
Credit : HK Sciences Museum.
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