Sir Francis Drake Size:medium Fearing they would encourage revolutionary

Fearing they would encourage revolutionary activities he issued a proclamation suppressing Coffee Houses on 23 December 1675

saw the Act of Settlement of 1701 and the resistance of French domination in Europe

known as ‘Rho Oph' for short or the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud

The hangings would have been used in lectures

The ‘longitude problem’ was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century

Sir Francis Drake Size:medium Fearing they would encourage revolutionaryDrake was the second man to circumnavigate the world, the first Englishman to do so and, given that Magellan was killed before his voyage was completed, the first commander of an expedition to return with full success. He is portrayed here with an array of accessories denoting his fame and achievements. The sword refers to his service to his country (especially in 1588 at the Spanish Armada), the globe to his circumnavigation of the world, and his