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File:Giant_dirigibles_to_operate_in_US.png|Giant Dirigibles to Operate in U.S., maybe be key to Flammarion engraving. | File:Giant_dirigibles_to_operate_in_US.png|Giant Dirigibles to Operate in U.S., maybe be key to Flammarion engraving. | ||
File:Ming Dynasty cannon.jpg|link=Cannon (nonfiction)|Early version of [[Cannon (nonfiction)]] develops self-awareness, fires upon Flammarion engraving as prelude to [[War (nonfiction)|war]] against the [[Empyrean (nonfiction)|Empyrean]]. | |||
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Revision as of 06:56, 20 June 2016
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.
It has been used to represent a supposedly medieval cosmology, including a flat earth bounded by a solid and opaque sky, or firmament, and also as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.
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.
In the News
Giant Dirigibles to Operate in U.S., maybe be key to Flammarion engraving.
Early version of Cannon (nonfiction) develops self-awareness, fires upon Flammarion engraving as prelude to war against the Empyrean.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Flammarion engraving @ wiki.karljones.com
- Flammarion engraving @ Wikipedia
- Georg Peez: "Zum Beispiel; Anonymer und undatierter Holzschnitt".