Nostrodamus's Bibliomancy Technique

Bibliomancy involves randomly selecting a book from a bookshelf, letting it fall open of itself at any page at random. This final phase can be based either on, as it were, selecting a passage with a pin or simply seeing which passage jumps out of the eye. Le messrier says this technique was and is called bibliomancy. And it is able that a man as fascinated by ancient divinatory techniques as nostrodomus would not have heard of it. But he does use imagery related to the pythian oracle of apollo at delphi in his prophecies. He also uses imagery related to brancidian oracle of Apollo at didama