| Description |
xiii, 256 pages : 8 pages of plates, illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index. |
| Contents |
My search begins: a natural curiosity about anomalies -- Genesis of a prophet: Nostradamus' origins and family history -- The secret of success: how to be a prophet in eight easy steps -- The right time and the right place: the period, the politics and the persons -- Medicine in the 16th century: the beginnings of medical science -- When magic ruled: an age of sorcerers -- Just what is astrology? The idea, the flummery, and the methods, then and now -- The world war II quatrains and their creators: how Nostradamus was drafted into service in World War II -- Contemporary seers: Nostradamus' fellow oracles -- The Nostradamians: interpreters of the prophecies -- The ten quatrains: evidence of imagination gone wild -- The legend begins: the death of Nostradamus and the birth of the new mythology -- Appendixes. The royal lineage. The anonymous document concerning the 1555 edition. Important dates in the Nostradamus story. Some end of the world prophecies that failed. |
| Subject |
Nostradamus, 1503-1566.
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Prophets -- France -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0684190567 |
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9780684190563 |
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