Nostradamus C3 Q82: Minerals and meter as prescient signs of a particular Disaster.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

Nostradamus was well versed in the arts of preparing minerals and in this verse the ancient processes are applied to the production of metal by beneficiations ( ice Feins Antibo) using vibration ( Antibor vi) and reduction ( tour de Nic) methods applied to supercelestial ( ice Les ſaturel) objects from outer space.

There are two other important themes within this verse one of which relates the manner in which meter is treated in order to eliminate errors by the use of staves and props.

The second theme is one used by the Norse poets and in this instance it particularly relates to numeration via the distance between succcesive SS lettering in the same location of another line or verse.

The third theme is the auxillary detail that allows the date to be identified by matching to events in the future.