Frederick the Great prickle maker James Swan

James Swan

Lee Marvin

Sir Francis Drake and Sir Martin Frobisher

Illustration accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations of the structure of human teeth

Frederick the Great prickle maker James SwanFrederick the Great, King of Prussia, 18th century (1913). Frederick II (1712 1786) ruled Prussia from 1740. He enlarged Prussian territory by acquiring Silesia from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession and from the partiton of Poland. He was regarded as an enlightened monarch, promoting religious tolerance, modernising the bureaucracy and civil service and patronising the work of writers and philosophers such as Voltaire and Kant. From A