Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion (February 26, 1842 – June 3, 1925) was a French astronomer and author. His full name is sometimes (rarely) given as Nicolas Camille Flammarion. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (428x603, 140 KB)This image has been extracted, rotated, retouched and resaved from s:The New Students Reference Work. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (428x603, 140 KB)This image has been extracted, rotated, retouched and resaved from s:The New Students Reference Work. ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ...

He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, as well as several notable early science fiction novels. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Juvisy-sur-Orge is a commune of the Essonne département in France. ...

He was a founder and the first president of the Société Astronomique de France.

He was the first to suggest the names Triton and Amalthea for moons of Neptune and Jupiter, respectively, although these names were not officially adopted until many decades later. Triton (trye-tÉ™n, IPA: , Greek Τρίτων), or Neptune I, is the planet Neptunes largest moon. ... Atmospheric pressure 0 kPa Amalthea (am-É™l-thee-É™, IPA: , Greek Αμάλθεια) is the third moon of Jupiter (in order of distance from the planet), and the fifth in order of discovery, hence its Roman numeral designation of Jupiter V. It was discovered on September 9, 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard using... Atmospheric characteristics Surface pressure ≫100 MPa Hydrogen - H2 80% ±3. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 70 kPa Hydrogen ~86% Helium ~14% Methane 0. ...

His second wife was Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion. Despite his scientific background, or perhaps even because of it, he had an interest in spiritualism and reincarnation. This influenced some of his science fiction. Other than that his writing about other worlds adhered fairly closely to then current ideas in evolutionary theory and astronomy. He was chosen to speak at the funerals of Allan Kardec, founder of Spiritism. Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1876 –October 31, 1962) was a French astronomer. ... Spiritualism is a religious movement, prominent from the 1840s to the 1920s, found primarily in English-speaking countries. ... According to Hinduism, every living being is an eternally existing spirit (the soul or the self). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is about biological evolution. ... A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. ... Allan Kardec was a pseudonym of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (October 3, 1804 - March 31, 1869), systematizer of the Spiritism. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

The enigmatic "Flammarion Woodcut" first appeared in an 1888 Flammarion publication. Image and text from page 163 of Latmosphère: météorologie populaire, by Camille Flammarion, 1888. ...

Bibliography

The famous "Flat Earth" woodcut originates with Flammarion's 1888 L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (p. 163)

• La pluralité des mondes habités (The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds), 1862.
• Real and Imaginary Worlds, 1864.
• Lumen, 1867.
• Récits de l'infini, 1872.
• L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, 1888.
• Astronomie populaire, 1880. His best-selling work, it was translated into English as Popular Astronomy in 1894.
• Uranie, 1890.
• La planète Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité, 1892.
• La Fin du Monde (The End of the World), 1893, is a science fiction novel about a comet colliding with the Earth, followed by several million years leading up to the gradual death of the planet. It has recently been brought back into print as Omega: The Last Days of the World.
• Death and Its Mystery, 1921, 3 volumes.

• Lumen online
• Uranie online

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Honors

Named after him

• Flammarion crater on the Moon.
• Flammarion crater on Mars.

Flammarion is a lunar crater on the south edge of Sinus Medii. ... Bulk silicate composition (estimated wt%) SiO2 44. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ...

Quotes

"What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on earth and transported toward that first stop on the celestial journeys? What thoughtful soul could look at brilliant Jupiter with its four attendant satellites, or splendid Saturn encircled by its mysterious ring, or a double star glowing scarlet and sapphire in the infinity of night, and not be filled with a sense of wonder? Yes, indeed, if humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure await those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace."

- Camille Flammarion, French astronomer, 1880