NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 822
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566)
, the assumed name of See also:MICHEL DE NOTREDAME, a See also:French astrologer, of Jewish origin, who was See also:born at St Remi in See also:Provence on the 13th of See also:December 1503
.
After studying humanity and See also:philosophy at See also:Avignon, he took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier in 1529
.
He settled at See also:Agen, and in 1544 established himself at See also:Salon near
de' See also:Medici; and in 1558 he published an enlarged edition with a See also:dedication to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king
.
The seeming fulfilment of some of his predictions increased his See also:influence, and See also:Charles IX. named him physician in See also:ordinary
.
He died on the and of See also:July 1566
.
The Centuries of See also:Nostradamus have been frequently reprinted, and have been the subject of many commentaries
.
In 1781 they were condemned by the papal See also:court, being supposed to contain a prediction of the fall of the papacy
.
Nostradamus was the author of a number of smaller See also:treatises
.
See Bareste, Nostradamus (See also:Paris, 184o)
.
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