Benjamin Banneker was an African-American inventor, poet, mathematician, and astronomer mostly known for having designed the plan of the city of Washington DC with the French architect, Pierre L’Enfant, under the supervision of George Washington.
What is little known about him, however, is the fact that he had made the fundamental Leibnizian discovery that the principle of proportionality between reason and power was congruent with arithmetic, politics, and the Peace of Westphalia.
BENJAMIN BANNEKER: PROPORTIONALITY AND THE BENEFIT OF THE OTHER
