Michel de Nostredame, also known as Nostradamus, was a French physician, reputed seer and renowned poet, born in 1503 in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, near Marseille. He is best known for his book Centuries (1555), a collection of oracular pronouncements in which he describes his visions of future events from the Second Coming of Christ to the end of the world. As a physician, Nostradamus was renowned for his ability to describe diseases with unusual precision. In 1546 he published his first book, Cosmographie, a volume that contains a set of verses that have been interpreted as an early form of the quatrains attributed to him
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In 1558 he published another cosmographic work, entitled Les Propheties. During his last decade he wrote a number of philosophical treatises and predictions about life after death. His reputation was such that people came from far and wide to consult him on their personal problems; he gave them answers that were vague and enigmatic to those who sought information from him but were specific and definite to those who received answers from his unconscious mind.