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• Submitted by Vidda on September 8, 2017 at 9:05 am

  What is The Flammarion engraving

  The Flammarion engraving.
  By an unknown artist.

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• Submitted by Vidda on September 8, 2017 at 11:11 am

  L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire

  The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion’s 1888 book L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (“The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology”).[1] The engraving has often, but erroneously, been referred to as a woodcut. It has been used to represent a supposedly medieval cosmology, including a flat earth bounded by a solid and opaque sky, or firmament, and also as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving

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• Submitted by tomaidh on September 8, 2017 at 3:44 pm

  Thank You

  It’s a very interesting picture -it evokes much thought.
  I seem to remember seeing it on an album cover a long time ago. Could it have been Pink Floyd?

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  • Submitted by Vidda on September 8, 2017 at 7:19 pm

    Firmament

    Just got back from dinner…
    No, not Pink Floyd.
    And, no album cover I’m aware of.

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