File:Flammarion Woodcut 1888 Color 2.jpg

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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 translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."
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Source Camille Flammarion: L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire. Paris, 1888, p. 163
Author AnonymousUnknown author
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  • Original version, 1888 (with the original caption).
    Original version, 1888 (with the original caption).
  • Original version, 1888 without the caption.
    Original version, 1888 without the caption.
  • Recoloured (1998)
    Recoloured (1998)
  • Colorized version of Flammarion Woodcut
    Colorized version of Flammarion Woodcut


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