Isaac Bickerstaff Esq was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a trick to predict the death of then famous Almanac–maker and astrologer John Partridge.
“All Fools Day” was Swift’s favorite of holidays and he often used this day to aim his satirically biting wit at non-believers in an attempt to “make sin and folly bleed.” Irritated by Partridge’s sarcastic attack about the “infallible Church” written in his 1708 issue of Merlinus Almanac, Swift projected carefully 3 letters and one Eulogy as an elaborate plan to “predict” Partridge’s “infallible death” to be revealed on April 1st, All Fools Day.
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