Further material was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus, [46] which included extracts from Michael Psellos's De daemonibus, and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum ( Concerning the mysteries of Egypt), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th-century Neo-Platonist. In his book, published in 2006, Reading claimed to have found something that others who had pored over Nostradamus had missed: that his quatrains are number-indexed to correlate with dates.

In the last years of his life, the condition turned into edema or dropsy, where abnormal amounts of fluid accumulate beneath the skin or within cavities of the body.One was an extremely free translation (or rather a paraphrase) of The Protreptic of Galen ( Paraphrase de C.

Nostradamus was a 16-century French astrologer and physician whose prophecies earned him fame both during and after his lifetime. Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practised magic to support them. Some people believe that his prophecies have predicted actual events, such as the death of Henry II, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the 9/11 attacks.Catherine de Medici, the wife of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus’ greatest admirers. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Though Catholic, he later traded on his Jewish ancestry by saying his natural instinct for prophecy was “inherited from my forebears”. His Nostradamus Trilogy thrillers based on the theme of Nostradamus's 58 missing prophecies is an international bestseller, with rights sold in 38 countries. Interpretations of looming disasters, based on fanciful readings of his verses, are still coming thick and fast.