Michel de Nostradamus—better known as Nostradamus—is a French philosopher, doctor, astrologer, and predictor.
His main work remains the prophetic book of the Centuries—“The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus.” It consists of about a thousand quatrains—catrenes—grouped into chapters called centuries, each containing 100 quatrains. Each century predicts events destined to happen one day and to change the course of history. It is believed that in one of the quatrains he wrote, Nostradamus predicted his own death.
The fame of Nostradamus’s predictions outlived the author for a long time; disputes around them do not subside to this day.