Where Heaven and Earth Meet, 1888
A Flammarion wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphere: meteorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The original caption translates to A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet
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13345660
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47788952
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3300px x 2750px
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© New York Public Library / Science Source / Mary Evans Picture Library
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