Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quat
Portrait by his son César [fr], c. 1614, nearly fifty years after his death
Nostradamus's claimed birthplace, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, photographed in 1997
Nostradamus's house at Salon-de-Provence, as reconstructed after the 1909 Provence earthquake
Century I, Quatrain 1 in the 1555 Lyon Bonhomme edition
Apothecary is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica to physicians, surgeons and patients. The modern terms pharmacist and, in British English,
Nostradamus
…Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting…
An apothecary in the 15th century
A 15th-century French apothecary (at right)
Interior of an apothecary's shop. Illustration from Illustrated History of Furniture, From the Earliest to the Present Time from 1893 by Frederick Litchfield (1850–1930).
The Lady Apothecary, by Alfred Jacob Miller (between 1825 and 1870). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.