Karl Jones: 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 wer...

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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 wer...

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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..."

Date: 1888

Source: [[Camille Flammarion]], ''L'Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire'' (Paris, 1888), pp. 163

Author: Anonymous

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flammarion.jpg

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Karl Jones: 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 wer...