Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

48 Wallenstein of this sum, and then as sales began to come through Wallenstein will have been able to make repayments and reduc ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 49 outset the income from property does not keep up with rapid inflation and falls in real terms. Then ...

50 Wallenstein of wrongdoing, carefully noting that the exchequer had in fact suffered no loss thereby, so that he commended Wal ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 51 programme in such a short time and in spite of his military commit- ments, a success which must hav ...

52 5. The Fault Is Not in Our Stars ( Julius Caesar) Already in his mid-thirties by the momentous year of 1618, little in Wallen ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 53 great weight on every word’.^2 As this view has frequently been repeated the evidence upon whic ...

54 Wallenstein lady as was described, although Kepler’s timing was seven years out.^5 On the other hand the prediction that he w ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 55 the world wealth and status could be achieved, and once the subject had overcome his faults thr ...

56 Wallenstein referred back to it regularly, comparing events as they occurred with those in the forecasts, there is no actual ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 57 I intend to be in Vienna within fourteen days. N.B. Also what nation or profession will my secr ...

58 Wallenstein wide of the mark. Instead he accepted the way out which Taxis had offered him and back-calculated a corrected tim ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 59 have had the forecast military appointment because there was no war in that year. Kepler even p ...

60 Wallenstein casually in the very next sentence: ‘Because the years thus far into the future cause no particular unease of min ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 61 That said, it is nevertheless true that Wallenstein maintained an inter- est in astrology in la ...

62 Wallenstein such evidence as there is supports neither the theory that Senno was paid to spy on Wallenstein nor the contentio ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 63 have known. Three times in the previous week or so I had read in dif- ferent horoscopes that my ...

64 Wallenstein universe, which was soon to give way to the Copernican heliocentric model. Like the Ptolemaic system, astrology d ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 65 Was there much truth in the unflattering description of Wallenstein’s character in Kepler’s fir ...

66 Wallenstein involving two letters), together with one briefer item. There are also the dealings with Kepler over Wallenstein’ ...

The Fault Is Not in Our Stars 67 his interest as both extraordinary and culpable. Accusations of supersti- tious belief in astro ...