Predictions of Michel Nostradamus

The predictions of Michel Nostradamus ( French Prophéties de Nostradamus ) - the original name of the most famous of the works of Nostradamus . It is a collection of quatrain verses, united in 10 centuries ("centuries") of 100 quatrains in each.

They were first published in 1555 in Lyon by Macé Bonhomme. The first edition included 3 whole centuries and 53 quatrains. The book begins with a preface, in the form of a message to the son of Cesar, followed by the centuries themselves.

The second edition was published in the same year and has slight differences in structure from the first.

The third edition was published in 1557 also in Lyon (Du Rosne). It included in its entirety the text of the previous edition and was supplemented by 3 more centuries. In total, Du Ron's publication volume was 6 full centuries and 42 quatrains.

The fourth edition was published 2 years after the death of the fortuneteller in 1568 . For the first time, the full text of all 10 centuries has appeared in it. Also in this edition for the first time appeared the second preface of Nostradamus (Message to King Henry ). However, the quatrains of 55–100 of the 7th Century were never supplemented.

In the future, over the next few years, other editions of Century also appeared. Among them appeared those in which not 10, but 12 whole centuries were included (incomplete, allegedly accidentally found). Experts are still arguing about whether these two can be included in the canonical text of the centuries. However, Nostradamus himself did not directly indicate the exact number of centuries.

Over the past five centuries, centuries have been translated into dozens of world languages.

Interpretation Examples

"Year 1999, seven months"

Stable interpretation of quatrain X-72, where the year of the event is directly indicated:

L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,

Du ciel viendra vu grand Roy d'effrayeur:

Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois,

Auant apres mars regner par bonheur.

  [1] .  This quatrain is usually translated like this:

In 1999, seven months later
The great king of horror will come from heaven
To resurrect the great king of Angouleme
Before and after, Mars will reign happily.

But this interpretation is doubtful among many researchers of the works of Nostradamus. So P. Brendamur wrote about this: “I could not find the astronomical source used by Nostradamus” ^[2] . The Russian historian A. Penzensky, who defended his Ph.D. thesis on Nostradamus, noted that there were no exact tables of eclipses 450 years ahead in the 16th century ^[2] . But the absence of tables does not yet imply the impossibility of predicting an eclipse 450 years ahead. Firstly, the use of saros , the repetition period of eclipses, well known to Nostradamus, allows us to predict the eclipse time on average 6–7 centuries in advance and, secondly, other eclipse repetition periods were also known. But the problem arises because the eclipse of August 11, 1999 belongs to a series of saros, which began after the death of Nostradamus (No. 145, beginning in 1639).

A. Penzensky suggests that the astrologer did not write about the eclipse of the sun in this quatrain, just a typo crept into the publication and the second line: “Du ciel viendra vu grand Roy d'effrayeur” should have looked like this: “Du ciel viendra vu grand Roy defrayeur. " And the King of horror turns into the Redeemer King, who resurrects, according to A. Penza, Francis I (12.09.1494 - 03.31.1547) ^[2] . But A. Penzensky is not trying to explain how, following what calculation, 1999 appeared.

The book "Lost Legacy and Chronology" offers several options for calculating the eclipse of August 1999 from the XVI century, available to the astrologer ^[3] .

A) Hipparchus, Ptolemy and Copernicus lead the repetition period of eclipses at 5458 months. If we proceed from the eclipse of April 18, 1558, and add 5458 lunar months, we immediately get the eclipse of August 1999. Perhaps this is the easiest way to get the "King of Terror" in the seventh month of 1999, which could use Nostradamus. But at the same time, the choice of the starting point does not get an explanation - the April eclipse of 1558. In central and northern Europe, it was only seen as private.

B) By analyzing the work of Regiomontan (Johann Müller, 1436 - 1476), the author comes to the conclusion that this most famous astronomer of the 15th century, whose last works were not preserved, most likely knew a repetition period of eclipses of 939 months. Then, starting from the most impressive eclipse of the 16th century - January 24, 1544, visible in France, Northern Italy, Germany and Russia as complete, we arrive at the eclipse on August 11, 1999.

C) Options A) and B) do not give a visible connection between the eclipse of August 1999 and Francis I, with milestones of which it is logical to correlate the eclipses of 1493 and 1547 belonging to the same Saros (No. 135). Under the assumption that this connection could still exist, arguments for which are given in the cited article by A. Penzensky, the author of the book shows that Regiomontan could have known a more general formula for calculating eclipses, which includes all repetition periods of the eclipses known in the 15th century and adds new ones, including in 939 and 5587 months. Then, if the eclipse period of 5587 months is added to the eclipse of November 1547 (the year of the death of Francis I), then the eclipse of August 1999 is immediately obtained in the first step. And the eclipse of 1999 is interpreted as the resurrecting phoenix Francis I (according to the astrologer), proposed by A. Penzensky.

This analysis shows that the predictions of astrologers of the Renaissance relating to the distant future, if they contain the exact date of the expected event, sometimes allow you to restore lost facts from the history of astronomy.
Also in this book, a version of the interpretation of the quatrain is considered, as an indication of the revival of King Francis I in September 1999. One of the reasons for choosing this year and month is the eclipse milestones from the 135 series of Saros, which outline the years of the king’s life and the month of his birth. But it was not found, the second reason necessary for the choice of 1999. It has been suggested that the choice is related to the total amount of calculations and predictions related to the “French Hercules”, which will enter the political arena “according to Nostradamus” in the first half of the 21st century.

"... Neptune disappeared into the moonlight"

Quatrain IV, 33:

Iupiter ioint plus Venus qu'a la Lune,

Apparoissant de plenitude blanche:

Venus cachee sous la blancheur Neptune ,

De Mars frappee par la grande branche.

In the 20th century, some nostradamologists considered it as a direct indication of the location of the planets during the discovery of the new planet Neptune. Here is one of the options for its translation ^[1] :

Jupiter is more connected with Venus than with the Moon,

Appearing in all its splendor.

Venus is hidden in the moonlight Neptune disappeared

Struck by the heavy spear of Mars.

In fact, if under Jupiter, Venus, etc. understand the planets, the quatrain simply draws the position of the “wandering stars”, without any indication of the nature of the event occurring at this position. New to the reader of the 16th century was the appearance of Neptune, the then unknown planet, among the usual planets of Neptune. That is why this quatrain is treated as an indication of the location of the planets during the discovery of a new planet.

In the book “Lost Legacy and Chronology” (2017), the history of the discovery of the planet Neptune is described in detail and it is shown that this quatrain, most likely, has nothing to do with it ^[3] . The author notes that Nostradamus has at least 5 quatrains where Neptune is mentioned: I-77, II-59, II-78, III-1, VI-90. The book made the assumption that this quatrain either depicts the political situation of countries at the time of its writing, where states are encrypted under the names of the god-planets, or the expected change in position in the political arena is encrypted. Then Neptune will correspond to the country - the mistress of the seas. In the XVI century it was Portugal (or Spain), in the XVII century - England.

There is also a “chemical” interpretation of this quatrain, according to which the “reaction” of metals corresponding to the planets is encoded in it. At the same time, Neptune should be understood as water. A. Penzensky supports this interpretation, only replaces water with bronze - an alloy of copper (Venus) and tin (Jupiter) with the addition of silver (Moon) ^[4] . The entire quatrain, according to the historian, poetically and jokingly draws the creation of the bell. The book "Lost Legacy and Chronology" notes that with this interpretation the third line becomes incomprehensible: Venus is hidden under the whiteness of Neptune. Can we talk about the whiteness of bronze? If “whiteness” is understood to mean tin and silver, then in this case copper is not “hidden” by their whiteness, but rather it even sticks out of them in bronze color. In the framework of this interpretation, it becomes completely incomprehensible to use the future tense in the first line, and the quatrain itself ceases to bear the function of prediction ^[3] .