The Historian, March 22nd, 2001
In December 1595, a short pamphlet entitled A Most Strange and Wonderfull Prophesie upon this Troublesome World was published in London by a printer named Abel Jeffes. The work, allegedly authored in 1569 by two German astrologers, Dr. John Cypriano and Tarquatus Vandermers claimed, that the year 1596 would bring the end of human history. It was a daring prediction, though of course it was hot the first time, or the last, that someone attempted to forecast the end of the world. Unfortunately for the pamphlet's readership, the Company of Stationers, the guild charged with overseeing printing an...
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