Re: Nostradamus (but on-topic)...

["John Grove" <4groves@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ouch. I am guilty as charged. However, there were perhaps hundreds of
potentially qualified individuals whose names could be tossed about in
speculation, including numerous 'not-so-famous' types.

John.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <voynich@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Nostradamus (but on-topic)...


> Hi everyone,
>
> The idea that Nostradamus wrote the VMS (suggested on-list by John Grove
in
> 1999) is not ~completely~ preposterous. Born 1503, brought up in Provence,
> learnt astrology from his grandfather, went to Montpellier University at
16
> to learn medicine, later wrote herbals, recipes, etc... perhaps he wrote
> the VMS as a student, who knows?
>
> My question of the day: do any fragments of Nostradamus' herbals from 1552
> still survive, or is the 1572 German translation the only thing remaining?
> It would be interesting to know what it originally looked like... :-)
>
> Your prophetically :-), ....Nick Pelling....
>
>