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In 1611, Johannes Kepler first proposed that the most efficient way to stack cannon balls was in a pyramid. This method was used to stop them from rolling around a ship's deck. To prevent the bottom layer from moving under the other balls, a metal plate was made from brass (to prevent rusting) with round indentations, called (for reasons unknown) a 'monkey'.

At Stratford-le-Bow in London is a large, Victorian monument to the Christian martyrs of that place who were burnt to death for the truth of the gospel and their rejection of Rome’s deceit. Stratford has a large, international railway station and a busy high street, but most nonchalantly pass this object which commemorates those men and women ‘of whom the world was not worthy’: