Nostradamus, Bibliomancer: The Man, the Myth, the Truth

By Peter Lemesurier

Do you think Nostradamus, the famous 16th century "Prophet of Provence," was some kind of magician, perhaps a doctor, astrologer, and seer, too? If so, Peter Lemesurier's revelation that he was really just an ordinary man using an equally ordinary technique may come as a shock.

After re-examining the original sources, Lemesurier concludes that Nostradamus was in fact neither a doctor nor an astrologer, nor even (by his own admission) a prophet. He merely believed that history repeats itself, thus and projected known past events onto the future. To do so, he used the process of bibliomancy--randomly selecting extracts of randomly chosen books, then claiming "divine inspiration."

Unsurprisingly, he has almost never been proved right.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1601631324
• ISBN13: 9781601631329
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: New Page Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.0" x 9.0"