the Nostradamu
s prediction did come somewhat true, more or less; it was just translated wrong.
among other things, he was a cosmotolog
ist (makeup, really), a doctor, an astrologer and an astronomer
. there was so little known back then you could diversify. he was born Jewish but his family converted to Christiani
ty. also, certain types of astronomic
al phenomena could be predicted since the classical Greeks.
the quatrain that upset generation
s was, roughly, this:
"In the year 1999 in the seventh month
A great king of terror will arise to
Resuscitat
e the King of Anguomois;
Around this time Mars rules for the good cause."
several of the quatrains were about astrolohgi
cal or astronomic
al phenomena. problem is everyone expected the Antichrist
; others expected a comet to strike the earth. no such thing. when he first wrote his 'Centuries
' (prophecie
s, first edition 1555), they were under the old Julian calendar, not the present Gregorian adopted in 1582. changing calendars to a more accurate one erased ten days, sparking uprisings from people who wanted those days back.
(it wasn't adopted by Russia (USSR) until the twentieth century.)
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