Michel de Nostredame (1503-66), later known as Nostradamus, was one of the leading lights of the late French Renaissance. A Jewish-French contemporary of Paracelsus and England's Dr John Dee, he was (from 1530) t medical college with Rabelais and much admired by the poet Ronsard. He was also famed as a mathematician and astrologer. His main fields were astrology and prophecy. This brought him into great public prominence, and he became influential at the French court. …showed first 75 words of 1168 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1168 total…practise astrology and his followers claimed that he recorded the future 'under the inspiration of the stars'. However, there is no doubt at all that most of the predictions made in the Centuries--both those that have already been fulfilled and those that appear to prophesy a bloody age of force and fire which is close upon us -- were arrived at by methods other than astrology. Here are some examples of his predictions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**