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Manufactured in Mons (now in Belgium), the gun was state-of-the-art for the times, firing cannonballs weighing up to 150-kg (331-lbs).
As for the square brass monkey with circular depressions for stacking cannonballs, it would have to contract a great deal more than the iron balls to cause them to tumble.
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.
However, as cannonballs would career over the deck because of the motion of the ship, they were kept in crates or on racks, and the nice-looking pyramids were probably just for show, as at monuments.
Beyond the serene courtyard and its statue of Columbus lie a succession of splendid marbled and chandeliered rooms, some housing old cannonballs and coaches, others decked out in gilded furnishings.