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"And this strange book of secret lore by Nostradamus' own hand..." (l. 190).  Faust here is talking about reading one of the book of quatrains (a poem with four lines) written by Nostradamus.  Nostradamus lived from 1503 to 1566.  He received a bachelor's degree and a license to practice medicine at the age of nineteen.  Nostradamus later studied alchemy and the works of magic. He was known as a good healer during the plague.  Although Nostradamus was best known for his writings, ''The Centuries''.  He wrote ten of these that each contained one hundred quatrains.  The books held prophecies that covered almost two thousand years.  One that has been causing great debate here lately is from one of Nostradamus' quatrains that holds close reference to the September 11th attacks.  "Earthshaking fire from the world's centre will cause tremors around the New City"(Wilson 11).