Uranie camille flammarion biography

A French astronomer and author.
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There, on Saturday, February 26, 1842, her first-born son Camille saw the light.

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Urania by Camille Flammarion

AuthorFlammarion, Camille, 1842-1925IllustratorDe BielerIllustratorGambardIllustratorMyrbach-Rheinfeld, Felician, Freiherr von, 1853-1940TranslatorStetson, Augusta RiceUniform Title Uranie. English Title Urania Note Reading ease score: 66.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Credits Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online
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by The Internet Archive) Summary "Urania" by Camille Flammarion is a novel written in the late 19th century. This work intricately merges themes of astronomy, idealism, and romance through the story of a young man who personifies his ideal muse, Urania, the Muse of Astronomy. The plot explores his awakening emotions and aspirations as he ventures through celestial realms alongside her, highlighting the intersection of science and profound personal longing. At the start of the novel, the protagonist experiences a deeply p

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Flammarion The Astronomer

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HIS HOME, HIS MANNER OF LIFE, HIS WORK

by R. H. Sherard

From McClure's Magazine (1894)

[p. 569] CAMILLE FLAMMARION, the astronomer, who has done more toward popularizing the study of astronomical science than any of his contemporaries, and who is known by his writings in all parts of the world, is a man fifty-two years of age. He was born on the 26th of February, 1842, at a village in the department of Haute-Marne, of humble parents. He was a precocious lad. It is recorded that he was master of reading and writing at the age of four, and that when seven years old he was specially commended by the prefect of his department for the way he acquitted himself in an examination at his school.

“I was interested in astronomy from the very first,” said Flammarion to me, during a recent visit which I paid to him in his fifth-floor apartment in the Rue Cassini, a remote quarter of Paris, hard by the observatory, “and I shall never forget with what joy I carried home the first telescope tha

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(1842-1925) French astronomer and author, author of at least seventy books, one of the first major popularizers of Astronomy; he took great delight in the flights of imagination to which his studies in Cosmology inspired him. In 1858, the year he entered the Paris Observatory as a student, he wrote an unpublished scientific romance, «Voyage extatique aux régions lunaires, correspondence d'un philosophe adolescent». His two major fascinations were the possibilities of Life on Other Worlds and of life after death, and these interests are reflected by his earliest major works: La pluralité des mondes habités ["The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds"] (1862), an extremely early attempt to argue for and to popularize the concept of the Alien as a distinct being (rather than a parody of various human characteristics), and Les habitants de l'autre monde ["The Inhabitants of the Other World"] (1862), the latter being "revelations" transmitted by the medium Mlle Huet. His most important work in the popul