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Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596)Engraving of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Elizabethan explorer and seafarer. In 1577 he and his crew became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe
Moscovian Officer 16CRUSSIA A Moscovian officer
Costume / Men / Bohemia 16CHabit of a man from Bohemia of 1577
J B Van HelmontJEAN BAPTISTE van HELMONT Belgian medical, chemist who innovated the word gas for something which is like air but is more ghostlike (gas and ghost are much the same word)
Charles Iis HouseKing Charles IIs tiny old timbered house at Worcester, built in 1577. It was here that the King took refuge in 1651 after being defeated at the Battle of Worcester
William CuninghamWILLIAM CUNINGHAM astrologer and engraver - he may have engraved this portrait of himself for his Cosmographical Glasse printed by John Day in 1559
Drake Starts his VoyageFrancis Drake prepares to embark on a worldwide voyage in his ship Golden Hind
Pp Rubens / Miniature / ThilPIETER PAUL RUBENS Flemish painter
Mattioli / Petrus / LarmessiPETRUS ANDREAS MATTIOLI Italian botanist
Jan Baptista Van HelmontJAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT Flemish chemist, invented the word gas, proposed interesting theories about gases and the digestive process
Christian Iv / Danish RoyaCHRISTIAN IV King of Denmark and Norway (1588-1648)
V Zuichem / BoulonoisVIGILIUS ZUICHEM Dutch jurist
THOMAS CORYATE / 1577-1617THOMAS CORYATE English traveller, became a source of amusement at court. Published narratives of his travels
Piet Hein Dutch NavalPIET HEIN Dutch sea-captain who becomes a national hero when, in 1628, he captures an entire Spanish silver fleet and brings it back to Amsterdam in triumph
Alchemy / Van HelmontAlchemist Van Helmont (1577- 1644) is visited by a stranger who generously presents him with the Philosophers Stone which turns base metals into gold
Remy BelleauREMY (or Remi) BELLEAU French writer, member of La Pleiade, playwright and translator but best known for his descriptive and pastoral poetry
Jan Battista Van HelmontJAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT Flemish chemist and physician, credited with scientific discoveries but also with possession of the alchemists philosophers stone
Peter Paul RubensPIETER PAUL RUBENS German-born artist with his autograph
Richard Earl PortlandRICHARD WESTON, earl of PORTLAND - statesman, but a braggart and a coward by all accounts with his autograph