Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

Detail of crow's nest up in the center mainmast; This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

View of the elaborately decorated stern with windows (square gallery that contains captains quarters); This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

Detail of the low galleon with a lion with English crown as figurehead, under the bowsprit; This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

Detail of starboard side near bow with two levels of guns; This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

Detail of the elaborately decorated stern with windows (square gallery that contains captains quarters); This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

Overall view; starboard side of the three-masted low galleon; This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

Model of a 74-gun ship of the line named William Rex

Detail of the elaborately decorated stern with windows (square gallery that contains captains quarters); This model shows the appearance of a Dutch warship in the late 17th century. It was made at the dockyards of Vlissingen (Flushing), where real warships were also built. (It was customary to build a detailed scale model). The 74-gun warship would have been more than twelve times larger than this model. The model was displayed in the council chamber of the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg. The ship 'King William' took part in the battle of La Hogue (part of the Nine Years' War); but was no longer mentioned after 1712. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 4/6/2015

The influences of target size and recent experience on the vigour of adjustments to ongoing movements

People adjust their on-going movements to changes in the environment. It takes about 100 ms to respond to an abrupt change in a target’s position. Does the vigour of such responses depend on the extent to which responding is beneficial? We asked participants to tap on targets that jumped laterally once their finger started to move. In separate blocks of trials the target either remained at the new position so that it was beneficial to respond to the jump, or jumped back almost immediately so that it was disadvantageous to do so. We also varied the target’s size, because a smaller, less vigorous adjustment is enough to place the finger within a larger target. There was a systematic relationship between the vigour of the response and the remaining time until the tap: the shorter the remaining time the more vigorous the response. This relationship did not depend on the target’s size or whether or not the target jumped back. It was already known that the vigour of responses to target jumps depends on the magnitude of the jump and on the time available for adjusting the movement to that jump. We show that the vigour of the response is precisely tuned to the time available for making the required adjustment irrespective of whether responding in this manner is beneficial