December 1503
Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France
July 1566
Salon, France

Astrologer, physician, author

"He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage/Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death."

Nostradamus.

Aphysician and astrologer by profession, Nostradamus is said to have remained awake nights for several years, meditating over a brass bowl filled with water. He lapsed into trances during which he supposedly could see into the future. He then set his predictions down for posterity in a twelve-volume work titled Centuries. Since his death in 1566, scholars and the general public alike have remained fascinated by Nostradamus's forecasts.