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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) 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.
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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Joyce had first expounded on epiphany's meaning in the fragment Stephen Hero (published posthumously in 1944). For the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, epiphany or a manifestation of the divine is seen in another's face (see face-to-face). Flammarion engraving. From "L'atmosphère", book of 1888.
Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by Camille Flammarion; Flammarion (lunar crater), a lunar crater named after Camille Flammarion; Flammarion (Martian crater), a Martian crater named after Camille Flammarion; Groupe Flammarion, a French publishing company; Camille Flammarion Observatory, the astronomical observatory
Apple has been offering free engraving on the iPod for a while now, and just in time for the holiday season is rolling out free iPad engraving if they were purchased at Apple.com. While the ...
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut , it uses relief printing , where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.