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Summary
Description Flammarion.jpg |
English:
The
Flammarion engraving
is a
wood engraving
by an unknown artist that first appeared in
Camille Flammarion
's
L'Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire
(1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious
Empyrean
beyond. The caption underneath the engraving (not shown here) translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."
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Date | |||||||
Source | Camille Flammarion , L'Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), pp. 163 . | ||||||
Author | Anonymous Unknown author | ||||||
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