X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Camille Flammarion


Extraterrestrials in fiction

Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) who lived in a time where biological science had made further progress, made speculation about how life could have evolved on other planets in works such as La pluralité des mondes habités (The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds) (1862) and Recits de L'Infini(1872), translated as Stories of Infinity in 1873.

Maurice Chabas

In 1900, Chabas moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, where his studio became a hub for scholars like Camille Flammarion, Charles Richet, Maurice Maeterlinck, Léon Bloy, Lucien Lévy-Brulh, Joséphin Péladan, Edouard Schuré, and René Guénon.

Messier object

The first such addition came from Nicolas Camille Flammarion in 1921, who added Messier 104 after finding Messier’s side note in his 1781 edition exemplar of the catalogue.

Omega: The Last Days of the World

Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion.

Percival Lowell

Lowell became determined to study Mars and astronomy as a full-time career after reading Camille Flammarion's La planète Mars.


George Griffith

Honeymoon in Space saw his newly married adventurers exploring planets in different stages of geological and Darwinian evolution on an educational odyssey which drew heavily on earlier cosmic voyages by Camille Flammarion, W. S. Lach-Szyrma, and Edgar Fawcett.


see also

Flammarion

The Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by Camille Flammarion

Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, wife of Camille Flammarion