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As for the weapons, it hardly falleth under rule and observation, yet we see even they have returns and vicissitudes; for certain it is, that ordnance was known in the city of the Oxidraces in India, and was that which the Macedonians called thunder and lightning, and magic; and it is well known that the use of ordnance hath been in China above two thousand years. 去书内
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    Bacon emphasizes that weaponry, though often overlooked in scholarly study, has a long, cyclical evolutionary history, as evidenced by ancient civilizations like India and China.

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