A traveller puts his head under the edge of the firmament in the original (1888) printing of the Flammarion wood engraving. - from our story 'Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)'

The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie 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 caption translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."
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