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“In a single century, on a piece of land that lay largely below sea level, and a population of two million, which amounted to little more than a rounding error in the continent’s total, the Dutch built a global empire, produced an improbable number of history’s greatest artists, scientists, and philosophers, and set the standards in economic and political practice that shaped the modern world.


--- Matthew Stewart. “The Courtier and the Heretic.”


the invention of the Dutch "platform."

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