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
An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. If done through occultic me
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 future events. Nostradamus's…
Consulting the Oracle (1884) by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy
The ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Didyma
Oracle bone of the Shang dynasty, ancient China