Nostradamus

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Nostradamus

1503–1566

Best known for the cryptic verses collected in Les Prophéties, this 16th-century French physician and astrologer became one of history’s most famous seers. His strange, compact predictions have fascinated readers for centuries and still spark debate today.

2 Audiobooks

The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

Oracles of Nostradamus

Oracles of Nostradamus

by Nostradamus, Charles A. Ward

About the author

Born Michel de Nostredame in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Nostradamus trained in medicine and lived through repeated outbreaks of plague in France. He later settled in Salon-de-Provence, where he built a reputation not only as a healer but also as a writer interested in astrology and prophecy.

He is chiefly remembered for Les Prophéties, first published in 1555, a collection of brief, highly symbolic quatrains. Their obscure wording helped make the book famous in his own time and even more influential after his death, as later readers tried to match its verses to major historical events.

Part historical figure and part legend, Nostradamus remains a striking example of how Renaissance medicine, astrology, religion, and popular imagination could overlap. For modern readers, his life is as interesting as his predictions: a mix of scholarship, uncertainty, and enduring myth.