Les Propheties

Nostradamus (14 decembrie, 1503-2 iulie, 1566), pe numele său real Michel de Nostredame, a fost un faimos medic, cabalist şi farmacist francez. Celebritatea sa se datorează lucrării Les Propheties, a cărei primă ediţie a apărut în 1555. De la publicarea sa, a devenit foarte populară în toată lumea, creându-se în jurul său un cult. În literatura tuturor timpurilor i s-a acordat titlul de prevestitor a tuturor marilor evenimente care se desfăşurau sau urmau să se întâmple în lume. Lucrările lui Nostradamus sunt realizate din catrene, multe dintre ele au fost de-a lungul timpului intrepretate sau traduse greşit. Nostradamus este o figură proeminentă a Renaşterii Franceze şi profeţiile sale sunt strâns legate de aplicarea Codului Bibliei cât şi a altor lucrări despre profeţii.

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Michel de Nostredame (14 December 1503-2 July 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties ("The Prophecies"), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events. The prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible code, as well as to other purported prophetic works.
Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus's quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.