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French seer Nostradamus was heavily mocked by professional astrologers of his era for being terrible at basic math

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The guy who supposedly predicted the end of the world couldn't even calculate a basic planetary transit. Actual practicing astrologers in the 16th century relentlessly dragged Nostradamus in public, claiming his ephemerides (astronomical charts) were full of embarrassing, amateur mathematical errors.

French seer Nostradamus was heavily mocked by professional astrologers of his era for being terrible at basic math
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