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    Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (French: [nikɔla kamij flamaʁjɔ̃]; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific...
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    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...
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  • Flammarion may refer to: Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, second...
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    established in Juvisy-sur-Orge in 1883 by the French astronomer and author Camille Flammarion. In March 2010, the structure was classified as a historical monument...
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  • La Fin du monde) is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. In the 25th century, a comet made mostly of Carbonic-Oxide (CO) could...
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  • reported by three authors: Robert Dale Owen, the French astronomer Camille Flammarion and the Russian parapsychologist Alexander Aksakov from one direct...
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    French feminist and pacifist. She was the wife of the astronomer, Camille Flammarion, and collaborator with him in much of his astronomical work. She was...
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    France in 1890, after becoming interested in astronomy by reading Camille Flammarion's books. From 1891 to 1894, Quénisset served as member of the society's...
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    Further inclusions followed; the first addition came from Nicolas Camille Flammarion in 1921, who added Messier 104 after finding Messier's side note in...
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  • with the Treaty of Popular Astronomy of his brother, the astronomer Camille Flammarion. The firm published Émile Zola, Maupassant, and Jules Renard, as well...
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  • Alternatively, it was named after Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion, first wife of French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) DMP · 87 88 Thisbe – Thisbe, lover...
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  • Belgian opera singer Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author Camille Flers (1802–1868), French painter Camille Gira (1958–2018), Luxembourgian...
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    astronomer Camille Flammarion in 1887, its purpose is to promote the development and practice of astronomy. SAF was established by Camille Flammarion and a...
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    Kardec's research influenced the psychical research of Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion and Gabriel Delanne. On 6 February 1832 he married Amélie Gabrielle...
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    admirer of the French astronomer Camille Flammarion supposedly bequeathed her skin to bind one of his books. At Flammarion's observatory, there is a copy...
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  • Warsaw, Poland, part of Złote Tarasy complex Lumen, an 1887 novel by Camille Flammarion All pages with titles containing Lumen Luminal (disambiguation) This...
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    "complete the planetary cycle as it was in the days of Noah" 1910 Camille Flammarion Flammarion predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet "would...
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    Torricelli Invented the mercury barometer, recorded in the books of Camille Flammarion (1923)...
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    experiments of other European scientists, such as Charles Richet and Camille Flammarion. Pierre Curie initially thought the systematic investigation into...
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    Flammarion is a lunar impact crater on the south edge of Sinus Medii. Its diameter is 76 km. It is named after the French astronomer Camille Flammarion...
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    Important early studies of dark-skinned holy images in France were by Camille Flammarion (1888), Marie Durand-Lefebvre (1937), Emile Saillens (1945), and Jacques...
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    and centering on a new generation of authors such as Albert Robida, Camille Flammarion, J.-H. Rosny aîné and Maurice Renard, the latter claiming the works...
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  • Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (née Renaudot) (31 May 1877 – 28 October 1962) was a French astronomer. She worked at the Camille Flammarion Observatory at...
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    though unofficial convention, a name first used by French astronomer Camille Flammarion. The other moons were simply labeled by their Roman numeral (e.g....
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    have found Monoceros on an ancient Persian sphere. French astronomer Camille Flammarion believed that a former constellation, Neper (the "Auger"), occupied...
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    ottomane, Antoine Gautier, in L'Astronomie, (Monthly magazine created by Camille Flammarion in 1882), December 2005, volume 119. L'observatoire du prince Ulugh...
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  • Fehrenbach Louis Feuillée Agnès Fienga Oronce Finé Camille Flammarion Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion Honoré Flaugergues Jean Focas Georges Fournier Jean...
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    breathe or to blow (hence, to live). French astronomer and spiritualist Camille Flammarion is credited as having first used the word psychic, while it was later...
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    book concluded it was bound in goatskin. Les terres du Ciel (1884, Camille Flammarion) Library in Juvisy-sur-Orge Held in a library c. 1924, location now...
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    cyanogen, which led press to misquote[citation needed] the astronomer Camille Flammarion by stating he claimed that, when Earth passed through the tail, the...
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