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The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion .
The "Flammarion engraving", 1888. Camille Flammarion was born in Montigny-le-Roi, Haute-Marne, France. He was the brother of Ernest Flammarion (1846–1936), the founder of the Groupe Flammarion publishing house. In 1858 he became a professional at computery at the Paris Observatory.
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The digital release of the original 1973 album "Cosmic Wheels" was on August 19, 2010. ... Donovan was inspired by the Flammarion engraving (Paris 1888) All tracks by ...
Second, Flammarion's version is, as far as we can ascertain, the original engraving. The colorized version is just one of maybe hundreds of colorizations in circulation, and does not even correspond to one of the published versions.
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The Flammarion engraving (1888) depicts a traveller who arrives at the edge of a Flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament.. The Flat Earth model is a belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk covered by a firmament containing heavenly bodies.
Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author; Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, second wife of Camille Flammarion; Sylvie Flammarion (1836-1919), French feminist and pacifist, first wife of Camille Flammarion; Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by Camille Flammarion