US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama mb-height 7186 In his right hand is

In his right hand is a dark lantern inscribed Amor Patriae

and a parasol

Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543) describes his idea of a Sun-centred universe

Framed in ornamental borders

leapfrogging over a mutinous John Bull

US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama mb-height 7186 In his right hand isUS Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA 26), Panama Canal, Panama, 1931. Commissioned in 1930, the 'Northampton' was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers. She was sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the Battle of Tassafaronga off Guadalcanal on 30 November 1942. The photograph was taken during a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies between January and March 1931.