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DescriptionFlammarion.jpg
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 underneath the engraving (not shown here) translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."
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Taken by 'world's largest sensor array' (2020)
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"A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..." Engraving by an unknown artist in Camille Flammarion's L'Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire (1888).
Un viajero pone su cabeza bajo el borde del firmamento en la impresión original (1888) del grabado en madera de Flammarion.
A traveller puts his head under the edge of the firmament in the original (1888) printing of the Flammarion wood engraving.
Higher quality image, adapted from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_missionnaire_du_moyen_%C3%A2ge_raconte_qu%27il_avait_trouv%C3%A9_le_point_o%C3%B9_le_ciel_et_la_Terre_se_touchent_..._LCCN95502287.jpg Edits: - sharpened the original scan - cropped