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[[File:720px-1024px-Flammarion.jpg|thumb|A | [[File:720px-1024px-Flammarion.jpg|thumb|A traveler puts his head under the edge of the firmament in the original (1888) printing of the Flammarion engraving.]]The '''Flammarion engraving''' is a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book ''L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire'' ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"). | ||
The engraving depicts a man, clothed in a long robe and carrying a staff, who kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, and right arm through a gap between the star-studded sky and the earth, discovering a marvellous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns beyond the heavens. | The engraving depicts a man, clothed in a long robe and carrying a staff, who kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, and right arm through a gap between the star-studded sky and the earth, discovering a marvellous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns beyond the heavens. | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving Flammarion engraving] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving Flammarion engraving] @ Wikipedia | ||
* [http://www.georgpeez.de/texte/flamku.htm Georg Peez: "Zum Beispiel; Anonymer und undatierter Holzschnitt"]. | * [http://www.georgpeez.de/texte/flamku.htm Georg Peez: "Zum Beispiel; Anonymer und undatierter Holzschnitt"]. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:48, 20 November 2021
The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").
The engraving depicts a man, clothed in a long robe and carrying a staff, who kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, and right arm through a gap between the star-studded sky and the earth, discovering a marvellous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns beyond the heavens.
One of the elements of the cosmic machinery bears a strong resemblance to traditional pictorial representations of the "wheel in the middle of a wheel" described in the visions of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel.
The caption that accompanies the engraving in Flammarion's book reads:
"A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch..."
The engraving has often, but erroneously, been referred to as a woodcut.
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