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The Public Domain Review on Instagram: "Crouching down to explore the seam where sky and ground meet, a traveler pushes his head through a gap and out into the heavens beyond. ⁠ ⁠ This celestial image known as the “Flammarion Engraving” — has long stumped scholars: is it a lost Renaissance engraving or a nineteenth-century pastiche? ⁠ ⁠ Seemingly first published in astronomer and science fictionist Camille Flammarion’s (1842–1925) L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888), the illustration was once thought to have originated centuries before Flammarion published his text. The artist remains uncertain, but early interpreters believed he or she was a contemporary of the paradigm shift that the work seems to depict: when ancient cosmogony gave way to the Scientific Revolution. Heinz Straus Flammarion Engraving, Camille Flammarion, Scientific Revolution, Paradigm Shift, He Or She, The Heavens, Astronomer, Public Domain, Astronomy

The Public Domain Review on Instagram: "Crouching down to explore the seam where sky and ground meet, a traveler pushes his head through a gap and out into the heavens beyond. ⁠ ⁠ This celestial image known as the “Flammarion Engraving” — has long stumped scholars: is it a lost Renaissance engraving or a nineteenth-century pastiche? ⁠ ⁠ Seemingly first published in astronomer and science fictionist Camille Flammarion’s (1842–1925) L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888), the illustration…

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