◆ The Celestial Record ◆
The Past
History's greatest seers, prophets and visionaries — their warnings, their visions and the uncanny moments when they were right. From Nostradamus to Mother Shipton, the past has never stopped speaking.
THE PAST
The Star That Led the Magi: Miracle, Myth or Astronomy?
The Bible gives us one source, one story, and almost no detail. Two thousand years of astronomers have been trying to work out what was actually in the sky.
The Man Who Moved the Earth: Copernicus, Part One
Before he changed cosmology, Copernicus spent decades doing almost everything else. The first in a series on the man behind the theory.
Mother Shipton: The Making of a Yorkshire Prophetess
She was born in a cave, lived on the edges of respectable society and allegedly predicted the modern world five centuries before it arrived. But how much of Mother Shipton is real and how much is Victorian invention?
Hypatia of Alexandria: The Woman Who Knew Too Much
Hypatia drove her own chariot, lectured to packed rooms and advised the most powerful man in Alexandria. She was killed for it in 415 AD. Sixteen centuries later, everyone claims her and almost nobody reads her.
Nostradamus: The Life, the Legend and the Quatrains That Refuse to Die
He was a physician, an astrologer and possibly the most misquoted man in history. Before the prophecy industry got hold of him, Nostradamus was something considerably more interesting.