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The Man Who Saw the Future
General: :Ebook
Format: epub
Size: 3.31 MB
Description: A spellbinding tale of prophecy, power, and politics-a biography of the 17th-century astrologer whose controversial celestial forecasts of the future changed the course of the English Civil War
Winter, 1643: Astrologer William Lilly is gazing at a chamber pot. Parliament has asked him to help: Will leader John Pym live or die? Using an ancient astrological technique called horary, Lilly predicts Pym will die in eight days' time. He is correct.
In the pages of his best-selling pamphlets, Lilly enthralls the civil war-torn nation with his uncannily accurate astral forecasts of who will triumph in combat. He advises the New Model Army on when to fight based on his judgment of King Charles I's horoscope; the key battle of Naseby is won with this astrological intelligence. Foreseeing the King's death seals his status as the nation's arch magus. But not everyone is happy with Parliament's new prophet and his enemies begin to plot...
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Title: The Man Who Saw the Future
Author: Catherine Blackledge
Language: English
Subjects: The Man Who Saw The Future: The 17th-Century Astrologer who Changed the Course of the English Civil War
ISBN: 9781780288123
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