Uranie camille flammarion biography

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Uranie camille flammarion biography

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(1842-1925) French astronomer and author, author of at least seventy books, one of the first major popularizers of Astronomy; he took great delight in the flights of imagination to which his studies in Cosmology inspired him.

In 1858, the year he entered the Paris Observatory as a student, he wrote an unpublished scientific romance, «Voyage extatique aux régions lunaires, correspondence d'un philosophe adolescent». His two major fascinations were the possibilities of Life on Other Worlds and of life after death, and these interests are reflected by his earliest major works: La pluralité des mondes habités ["The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds"] (1862), an extremely early attempt to argue for and to popularize the concept of the Alien as a distinct being (rather than a parody of various human characteristics), and Les habitants de l'autre monde ["The Inhabitants of the Other World"] (1862), the