trading fleet near Gibraltar, and begins to write a revealing treatise on piracy. The first Thai embassy to Japan arrives. William Harvey gives his views on the circulation of blood, as Lumleian Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians. It is not until 1628 that he gives his views in print. The Dutch establish their colony of Essequibo, in the region of the Essequibo River, in northern South America (present-day Guyana), for sugar and tobacco production. The colony is protected by Fort Kyk-Over-Al, now in ruins. The Dutch also map the Delaware River in North America. The Ottoman Empire attempts landings at the shoreline between Cádiz and Lisbon. Croatian mathematician Faustus Verantius publishes his book Machinae novae, a book of mechanical and technological inventions, some of which are applicable to the solutions of hydrological problems, and others concern the construction of clepsydras, sundials, mills, presses bridges and boats for widely different uses. John Speed publishes an edition of his Atlas of Britain, with descriptive text in Latin. Pierre Vernier is employed, with his father, in making fine-scale maps of France (Franche-Comté area). Danish natural philosopher Ole Worm collects materials that will later be incorporated into his museum in Copenhagen. His museum is the nucleus of the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum. Isaac Beeckman, Dutch intellectual and future friend of René Descartes, leaves his candle factory in Zierikzee, to return to Middelburg to study medicine. In Sardinia, the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Sassari is founded. Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpts Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, at the age of 18 years. This work is now in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The States of Holland set up a commission to advise them on the problem of Jewish residency and worship. One of the members of the commission is Hugo Grotius, a highly regarded jurist and one of the most important political thinkers of his day. Marie Venier (called Laporte) is the first female actress to appear on the stage in Paris. Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner becomes the advisor to Archduke Maximilian, brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. A lifelong enemy of Galileo, following a dispute over the nature of sunspots, Scheiner is credited with reopening the 1616 accusations against Galileo in 1633. Tommaso Campanella's book In Defence of Galileo is written. Istanbul's Sultan Ahmed Mosque (also known as the Blue