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Michel de Nostredame (14 December or 21 December 1503^[1] – 2 July 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties (“The Prophecies”), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events. The prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible code, as well as to other purported prophetic works.

Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus’s quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus’s quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.^[2]

Sources

• Nostradamus, Michel:
  • Orus Apollo, 1545 (?), unpublished ms; Almanachs, Presages and Pronostications, 1550–1567; Ein Erschrecklich und Wunderbarlich Zeychen…, Nuremberg, 1554; Les Propheties, Lyon, 1555, 1557, 1568; Traite des fardemens et des confitures, 1555, 1556, 1557; Paraphrase de C. Galen sus l’exhortation de Menodote, 1557; Lettre de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, de Salon de Craux en Provence, A la Royne mere du Roy, 1566
• Leroy, Dr Edgar, Nostradamus, ses origines, sa vie, son oeuvre, 1972 (the seminal biographical study)
• Dupèbe, Jean, Nostradamus: Lettres inédites, 1983
• Chomarat, Michel, and Laroche, Jean-Paul: Bibliographie Nostradamus (1989)
• Benazra, Robert: Répertoire chronologique nostradamique (1990)
• Randi, James, The Mask of Nostradamus, 1993 ISBN 0879758309
• Rollet, Pierre, Nostradamus: Interprétation des hiéroglyphes de Horapollo, 1993
• Brind’Amour, Pierre: Nostradamus astrophile, 1993; Nostradamus. Les premières Centuries ou Prophéties, 1996
• Lemesurier, Peter, The Nostradamus Encyclopedia, 1997; The Unknown Nostradamus, 2003; Nostradamus: The Illustrated Prophecies, 2003
• Prévost, Roger, Nostradamus, le mythe et la réalité, 1999
• Chevignard, Bernard, Présages de Nostradamus 1999
• Wilson, Ian, Nostradamus: The Evidence, 2002
• Clébert, Jean-Paul, Prophéties de Nostradamus, 2003
• Gruber, Dr Elmar, Nostradamus: sein Leben, sein Werk und die wahre Bedeutung seiner Prophezeiungen, 2003

Notes

Links

This section is for links to sites consistent with the established facts reported in the article only, not with others that are mainly speculative or purely fictional in character and thus not complementary to it.

• Timeline
• Facsimiles of original editions with translations
• Facsimiles of many contemporary texts
• Facsimiles, reprints and some translations of a huge range of Nostradamus texts, info etc.
• Facsimiles of the first four editions of the Propheties compared (downloadable)
• Historical origins of the Propheties
• Espace Nostradamus Benazra’s French website and major academic forum
• CURA’s major international academic forum
• Nostradamus Research Group
• World’s largest online library of Nostradamus facsimiles
• Logodaedalia Scientific and Medical French website (Dr. Lucien de Luca)
• Anna Carlstedt (La poésie oraculaire de Nostradamus, 2005)
• Selected English translations from the Mirabilis liber.
• Texts, FAQs, translations, quatrain search engine, general information and illustrated tour of Nostradamus’s Provence

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