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	Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Nicolas Camille Flammarion was born in 1842 at Montigny-le-Roi in the department of Haute Marne, France.
		Flammarion was honored by the naming of a Moon Crater (3.4S, 3.7W, 74.0 km diameter, in 1935) and a Mars Crater (25.4N, 311.8W, 173.0 km, in 1973).
		Camille Flammarion from the Observatoire Camille Flammarion (in French)
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/flammarion.html (394 words)

	Flammarion, Camille (1842-1925)
		Flammarion's passionate belief in life on other worlds was nurtured by his readings of previous pluralist authors such as Fontanelle, Cyrano de Bergerac, Huygens, Lalande, and Brewster.
		This belief in extraterrestrial life, Flammarion combined with a religious conviction derived, not from the Catholic faith upon which he had been raised, but from the writings of Jean Reynaud and their emphasis upon the transmigration of souls.
		Flammarion's fertile imagination moves from romantic science to scientific romance in his Recits de l'infini (1872) and La fin du monde (1893).
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/F/Flammarion.html (652 words)

	Camille Flammarion - A Biography
		That student was Camille Flammarion, the one that would illustrate and demonstrate the letter and the Gaelic-Roman significance of his name - Flammarion: “The one who carries the light ".
		The life of the Flammarion family was a very difficult one, and Camille understood his father's merit when he decided to delegate everything he possessed to the creditors.
		According to Gabriel Delanne, Camille Flammarion was a philosopher crafted in a wise person, possessing the art of the science and the science of the art.
	www.sgny.org /main/Biographies/bio_CF.htm (960 words)

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		In the work of Camille Flammarion the dominant thought was the problem of life in the Universe, the basis of his beautiful and profound philosophy.
		Flammarion was persuaded that it was by this process of impartial analysis of all existing documents that one might hope for a solution of the Martian enigma.
		Camille Flammarion labored all his life with indefatigable ardor for the spread of knowledge, for the moral and intellectual progress of humanity, and this by teaching with contagious enthusiasm the most beautiful of the sciences, Astronomy.
	membres.lycos.fr /juvastro/amis/flam_en.htm (2679 words)

	Camille Flammarion und die Thermodynamik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In Camille Flammarion’s book La fin du monde, published in 1894, we find an impressive picture: Some poorly dressed people, including a mother with her child, are shivering with cold in an extremely hostile environment of ice and snow.
		By analysing Flammarion's text, it is shown that he was not a supporter of this vision of the end of the world.
		According to Flammarion, mankind would die of cold as a consequence of the lack of water vapour in the atmosphere, and this would occur about twenty million years before the exhaustion of the sun as a source of energy.
	www.physik.uni-halle.de /Fachgruppen/history/42_sum.htm (259 words)

	Flammarion woodcut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flammarion woodcut is an anonymous woodcut, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").
		Further investigation, however, revealed that the work was a composite of images characteristic of different historical periods, and that it had been made with a burin, a tool introduced for wood engraving in the early 19th century.
		Flammarion had been apprenticed at the age of twelve to an engraver in Paris and it is believed that many of the illustrations for his books were engraved from his own drawings, probably under his supervision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flammarion_woodcut (458 words)

	Camille Flammarion
		Flammarion foi um homem cujas obras encheram de luzes o século XIX.
		Camille, depois de muito procurar, encontrou serviço de aprendiz de gravador, recebendo como parte do pagamento casa e comida.
		Camille Flammarion, segundo Gabriel Delanne, foi um filósofo enxertado em sábio, possuindo a arte da ciência e a ciência da arte.
	www.espirito.com.br /portal/biografias/camille-flammarion.html (827 words)

	UPNE - Lumen: Camille Flammarion
		Camille Flammarion, Brian Stableford, ed., Brian Stableford, trs.
		Lumen was first published by Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) in 1872 as part of the Stories of Infinity collection.
		Flammarion was a well-known French astronomer, writer and highly successful popularizer of science during the late 19th century.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-6567-9.html (200 words)

	camille flammarion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Camille continue à suivre un enseignement au petit séminaire de Langres, comme beaucoup d’enfants des milieux ruraux.
		Camille Flammarion y expose l’une de ses réflexions favorites : si l’on observe ainsi les planètes, c’est pour certes chercher à mieux les connaître mais sommes nous donc si surs d’être seuls dans le vaste univers ?
		Malgré le retour au calme d’après guerre, Camille Flammarion s’implique de moins en moins dans les événements de l’actualité scientifique.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/flammarion/cflam/camille.htm (749 words)

	Camille Flammarion
		Flammarion, entretanto, não compartilha das principais idéias da religião positiva, uma vez que crê na existência de Deus e na imortalidade da alma.
		Flammarion é um autor bastante prolífico, e certamente não tivemos acesso a toda a sua obra, que possivelmente não se encontra totalmente traduzida.
		A obra espírita de Flammarion sustentou e alimentou diversas gerações de espíritas em nosso país, foi uma fonte importante nas discussões que o movimento espírita brasileiro teve de sustentar com diversos segmentos científicos e políticos de nossa sociedade para manter o direito constitucional de existir.
	www.geae.inf.br /pt/biografias/cflammarion.html (4925 words)

	Camille Flammarion: Viele Informationen uber Camille Flammarion an OnlineEnzyklopaedie.de
		Flammarion, der zunächst Theologie studierte, war bereits in jungen Jahren an der Astronomie interessiert.
		Flammarion verlor darauf hin seine Stellung am Observatorium und arbeitete von 1862 bis 1867 für das Institut de Longitudes, kehrte dann zum Observatorium zurück, wo er an einem Projekt zur systematischen Beobachtung von Doppelsternen teilnahm.
		Flammarion veröffentlichte etwa 50 populärwissenschaftliche Werke, darunter 1879 die L'astronomie Populaire von der 100.000 Ausgaben verkauft wurden und La Planète Mars (Band 1 1892, Band 2 1909) in dem er die Existenz der Marskanäle unterstützte, die von einer hochentwickelten Kultur erbaut worden seien, und ermutigte Amateurastronomen zu eigenen Beobachtungen.
	www.onlineenzyklopaedie.de /c/ca/camille_flammarion.html (555 words)

	Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Having originally studied for the priesthood, Camille Flammarion became first an engraver then an astronomer and a populariser of the subject in a number of works for a general audience that gained him a wide fame.
		Flammarion was well-known for his fictional writings, and Terry Ramsaye quotes from a perceptive (but undated) St.
		Flammarion's most outstanding work, his science-fiction novel La Fin du Monde, was filmed by Abel Gance in 1930.
	www.victorian-cinema.net /flammarion.htm (250 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Camille
		Tallard, Camille, marquis de la Baume-d'Hostun, baron d'Arlanc, comte de, 1652-1728, French diplomat, marshal of France.
		Barrot, Camille Hyacinthe Odilon, 1791-1873, French political leader.
		Lust at first sight: Camille Roberts is about to her safety guy...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Camille&Offset=10 (583 words)

	History_of_Science_Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Flammarion (1842-1945) was an astronomer and a popular science writer.
		Flammarion's picture is surrounded by a decorative border, which does not appear to be extrinsic to the woodcut but an original part of it.
		There is a rumor* that Flammarion's diaries at the Juvissy Observatory, where he worked, acknowledge that he had the woodcut made.
	homepage.mac.com /kvmagruder/flatEarth/source.html (1159 words)

	F2: Edgar Rice Burroughs Library
		In 1880 Camille Flammarion published L'Astronomie, in which he included a picture similar to that of Peter Apian, showing the passage of Halley's Comet between the Great Bear and Leo, with the comet's tails away from the sun.
		Nicolas Camille Flammarion (February 26, 1842 - June 3, 1925): was born in 1842 at Montigny-le-Roi in the department of Haute Marne, France.
		Camille Flammarion, despite is scientific background as an astronomer, once stated "spiritualism was not a religion but a science", but in his last book 'Natural Unknown Forces', published in 1909, he admitted not to be able to give a complete and conclusive explanation of the phenomena observed by him for more than 40 years.
	www.erbzine.com /dan/f2.html (6208 words)

	The Atmosphere: Rare books: Exhibits: MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections
		, by Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), is a translated and abridged English version of L'atmosphere (Paris, 1871), a typical example of popular science writing by France's premier late nineteenth-century popularizer.
		Flammarion's childhood fascination with astronomy led to a job at the Paris Observatory.
		In 1887 Flammarion founded the French Astronomical Society, which aimed to promote an interest in science among members of the general public.
	libraries.mit.edu /archives/exhibits/rarebooks/lunar-day/index.html (161 words)

	Camille Flammarion - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Darüber hinaus beobachtete Flammarion den Mond und den Mars.
		Flammarion setzte sich darüber hinaus mit der Parapsychologie auseinander und vertrat die Auffassung, dass die Seele eine unabhängige Existenz vom Körper besitze und Fähigkeiten aufweist, die der Wissenschaft bislang unbekannt seien.
		Ihm zu Ehren wurden der 74 km große Mondkrater Flammarion sowie der Asteroid (1024) Flammario benannt.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Camille_Flammarion (643 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: OMEGA: The Last Days of the World
		Camille Flammarion (1842—1925) was a well-known French astronomer and writer who popularized science in the late 19th century.
		Flammarion's interest in life after death becomes a dominant theme, and we follow as humanity and other animals evolve toward the final end of the solar system.
		Flammarion uses the fictional form to take his readers to the very edge of what his science, and his mysticism, had to offer.
	www.sfsite.com /04b/om55.htm (613 words)

	Camille Flammarion - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Flammarion fue el primero en sugerir los nombres actuales de Tritón, satélite de Neptuno y de Amaltea, luna de Júpiter, si bien estos nombres serían aceptados oficialmente únicamente varias décadas más tarde.
		Flammarion fue también un apasionado espiritista, especialmente en sus últimos años, tema en el que mantenía una actitud ambivalente considerando los fenómenos espiritistas como regidos por principios científicos no descubiertos todavía.
		Camille Flammarion escribió cerca de cincuenta obras cubriendo numersosos campos de la astronomía.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camille_Flammarion (486 words)

	Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures
		From Camille Flammarion, Bebodda Verldar, eller vilkoren för himlakropparnas beboelighet, betraktade från astronomiens, fysiologiens och den naturliga filosofiens synpunkter (Stockholm, 1867), pl. 1.
		Map of Mars, by Leo Brenner, based on observations 1894-1901 (according to the the caption, while the dates on the map are 1894-1897).
		From Camille Flammarion, Himlens under: Causerier i populär astronomi (Stockholm, 1870) fig.
	www42.pair.com /infolund/bolaget/DAHAP/solar.html (311 words)

	Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » Remembering Camille Flammarion
		Science writer Larry Klaes passed along a quote from French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion that he posted in the SETI League’s BioAstro list.
		I don’t have the reference on this (Larry?) but perhaps it’s from one of Flammarion’s letters, and the bayonet comment leads me to suspect it was written around the time of the Franco-Prussian War.
		Flammarion’s 1892 book La Planete Mars, et ses conditions d’habitabilité (The planet Mars and its conditions of habitability), incidentally, had much to do with igniting interest in Mars as the possible abode of life.
	www.centauri-dreams.org /?p=884 (527 words)

	LPOD - Lunar Photo of the Day
		Named after Camille Flammarion the great popularizer of astronomy from the 1880s through the 1920s, this crater has been affected by many of the great events of lunar history.
		And third, the floors of Flammarion, Flammarion T and other old craters are veneered with Cayley Formation light plains - assumed to be Imbrium's fluidized ejecta.
		At some later time a narrow linear rille cut the Cayley along the north edge of Flammarion's floor, but the western end of the rille was subsequently buried by lavas from Sinus Medii.
	www.lpod.org /archive/LPOD-2004-08-15.htm (282 words)

	SAF - CAMILLE FLAMMARION (1842-1925)
		Flammarion, déçu, le quitte en 1852 alors qu'il publie son premier ouvrage, La Pluralité des Mondes Habités.
		En 1887, Camille Flammarion réunit un groupe d'amis de la science et fonde avec eux la Société Astronomique de France, bientôt dotée, en plein Quartier Latin, d'un observatoire populaire ouvert à tous.
		Flammarion, après en avoir été le premier président, en reste le secrétaire général jusqu'à sa mort en 1925.
	www.saf-lastronomie.com /flammarion.htm (411 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Flammarion was a French astronomer and popular science writer.
		This woodcut is unlikely to be mediaeval in origin, but was used by Flammarion to illustrate the notion that mediaeval man believed the earth was flat.
		The missionary is shown at the point at which the earth and sky join, and he has discovered a hole where, by stooping, he can pass ‘under the roof of the heavens’.
	scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?image=10411307&wwwflag=&imagepos=2 (186 words)

	Camille Flammarion
		Camille Flammarion (February 26, 1842 –; June 3, 1925) was a French astronomer.
		His full name is sometimes (rarely) given as Nicolas Camille Flammarion.
		The famous "Flat Earth" woodcut originates with Flammarion's 1888 L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (p.
	www.mlahanas.de /Physics/Bios/CamilleFlammarion.html (220 words)

	SciFan: Books: Omega: The Last Days of the World by Camille Flammarion (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, ...
		Over 40 years before John W. Campbell took the helm of Astounding SF, Flammarion was extrapolating fiction from the most advanced science of his day (flavoring it occasionally with transcendental fantasy, a practice not unknown to modern hard SF).
		Now Flammarion's seminal novel has been rescued from oblivion, and it deserves a place in the library of every serious student of SF.
		Flammarion writes in a leisurely, expository 19th-century style, and he is no Charles Dickens.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=11491 (346 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: SMART-1 Search for Lunar Peaks of Eternal Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		On the other hand, at higher elevations on the rim of polar craters, there are areas that see the Sun for more than half of the time.
		The popular astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion proposed in 1879 that there might be peaks of eternal light at the poles - "pics de lumiere eternelle".
		Although for most of the Moon's surface there are no perceptible seasonal variations in the length of the day, there can be large variations of illumination over the poles during the course of the year.
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=36974 (514 words)

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