Columbus's Egg in Milton's Paradise Lost

In Milton's Paradise Lost, after the first day of the losing battle in heaven, Satan invented gunpowder and cannon in order to recover from the brink of defeat. Here it seems highly possible that Milton had in mind the now well-known episode of the egg, a little of one of whose ends having been crushed, was successfully fixed on the table, which allegedly occurred to Columbus on returning to Spain after he had discovered America.