Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842-1925) · France · Scientists · Died at 83
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Something wrong?He split the difference between telescope and séance table: a serious astronomer who also chased ghosts, wrote science fiction, and made the cosmos a popular obsession in Belle Époque France.
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Camille Flammarion by Eugène Pirou
Exposition du ballon d'Eugène Godard 1870
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Boissay & Flammarion - De Paris à Vaucouleurs à vol d'oiseau, 1873 (page 10 crop)
Bronze jubilé Camille Flammarion
Ca. 1880 chart showing the Copernican model of the Solar System
Camille Flammarion at the eyepiece of his 9½-inch Bardou refractor at his Juvisy observatory
Camille Flammarion holding a book bound in human skinAwards
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Born 26 February 1842, Flammarion turned French astronomy outward - not just toward specialists but toward anyone who'd look up. He wrote more than fifty books, mixing rigorous popular science with early science fiction novels that imagined life beyond Earth. In 1882 he launched L'Astronomie, a magazine that ran for decades, and maintained his own observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge where he worked until his death on 3 June 1925. The same man who charted the stars also published extensively on psychical research, convinced the universe held more than physics could yet explain.
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