Articles on books of the MoneyMuseum.

The author of this book wasn’t just anyone: Sylvius Nimrod went to the Thirty Years’ War as a landless nobleman. When the war was over, he had become Duke of Württemberg-Oels. He wrote down everything he learned during the terrifying sieges of the war in this manual of artillery.

Investing money wasn’t exactly his forte. Writing about it was. In his short stories, Mark Twain masterfully pictures American capitalism in the 20th century.

Machiavelli’s works on political philosophy like “The Prince” are still popular and frequently quoted today. Also in late 17th century England his works were in demand – for political considerations.

Whoever published a coin collection used to do so not only for scholarly reasons. Quite the opposite: an extensive coin collection made its owner gain prestige, which could be used for political purposes – that’s what the last members of the Farnese family did.

The almost forgotten civil war epos by Roman prodigy Lucan experienced a renaissance during the Thirty Years’ War. There’s a good reason why Dutchman Hugo Grotius, a pioneer of international law, published an edition of this work.