Boldly Explore Learning Leaflet: Iconic ImagesLynx Open Ed
Camille Flammarion (1888) History of Science Collections
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Camille Flammarion, L!Atmosphère (Paris, 1888)
Exhibit: Galileo’s World | Gallery: Copernicus and Meteorology | No. 1 lynx-open-ed.org
Where will the quest of discovery lead you?
Boldly Explore: Camille Flammarion (1888)
Science is a quest of discovery, the challenge of boldly
exploring where no one has gone before. That is the
appeal and rhetorically durable theme which has made
this woodcut so appealing.
Many have reprinted this illustration through the
years, sometimes without knowing its original source.
It first appeared in this popular work on meteorology.
Flammarion was an astronomer and popular science
writer who worked at the Juvissy Observatory in
Paris. He was mistaken in his belief that scientists,
writers and theologians in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance regarded the Earth as flat.
This iconic image bookends Galileo!s World at the
National Weather Center. The exhibit opens with the
book and ends with a modern colorized version above
cases of current meteorological instruments. Scientists
exploring space, Earth and sky today exemplify the
same creativity, resourcefulness and determination to
explore new worlds of knowledge as the figure in the
woodcut. Susanna J. Magruder has provided the
colorized version, so create your own wall graphic or
put it on a t!shirt or coffee mug!
Kerry Magruder and Susanna J. Magruder
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