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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 author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics.
- Nicolas Camille Flammarion, 26 February 1842, Montigny-le-Roi, France
- Ernest Flammarion (brother)
- 3 June 1925 (aged 83), Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
Feb 26, 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer who observed double stars, the moon and Mars, and wrote popular science and fiction books. Discover his influences, contributions, and beliefs in extraterrestrial life, spiritism and reincarnation.
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) was a French astronomer and psychical researcher, notable for his writings on mediumship and psychic phenomena, including case collections. He also distinguished himself as a novelist and popular science writer. Contents. Life and Career. Interest in Psychic Phenomena. Case Collections. Mediumship. Haunted Houses.
(1842-1925), astronomer. Camille Flammarion was born in Montigny-le-Roi, France on 26 February 1842. His interest in astronomy dates from his early childhood, having observed solar eclipses on 9 October 1847 and 28 July 1851. By the time he was eleven he was busily making astronomical and meteorological observations.
The long and fertile scientific career of Camille Flammarion, the founder of the Societe Astronomique de France, whose centenary we are celebrating in 1987, is marked by an extraordinary variety of projects and research, covering practically all of the astronomical questions and problems that were current in his time.
Feb 26, 2015 · February 26, 2015. Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer, was born Feb. 26, 1842. Flammarion published his first book in 1862, La pluralité des mondes habités ( The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds ), at the ripe age of 20, and he went on to become the mostly widely-read author of popular science books in the last half of the nineteenth century.
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Feb 26, 2024 · February 26, 2024. Prehistoric creatures of the deep, detail of wood-engraving, in Le monde avant la création de l'homme, by Camille Flammarion, 1886 (Linda Hall Library) Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer and popular science writer, was born Feb. 26, 1842.
