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...latest of some 400 works on Nostradamus since his death in 1566, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus???Historian and Prophet is an interpretation with a twist: De Fontbrune analyzed the use and frequency of words with the help of a computer in his translation from 16th century French. Nostradamus' predictions, originally titled Centuries, are contained in 1,050 verses, mostly quatrains. He is said to have conceived his vague but troubling visions while staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doomsayer from the Past | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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