BeschrijvingFlammarionWoodcut.jpg	English: 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..."
Datum	1888
Bron	Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), pp. 163
Auteur	AnoniemUnknown author
Toestemming (Hergebruik van dit bestand)	Het tweedimensionale kunstwerk afgebeeld op deze afbeelding valt in het publiek domein omdat: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse Dit werk bevindt zich in het publiek domein in landen en gebieden waar de auteursrechttermijn het leven van de auteur plus 100 jaar of minder is. Je dient ook een Amerikaans publiek domein-tag in te voegen om aan te geven waarom dit werk zich in het publiek domein bevindt in de Verenigde Staten. Van dit bestand is vastgesteld dat er geen bekende auteursrechtaanspraken op rusten, alle aanverwante en naburige rechten daarbij inbegrepen. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse Reproducties van het werk kunnen ook worden beschouwd als publiek domein omdat ze geen oorspronkelijk karakter hebben. Dit geldt voor reproducties gemaakt in de Verenigde Staten (zie Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.), Duitsland en veel andere landen.
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Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), p. 163.

The Flammarion Woodcut is an enigmatic woodcut by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion Woodcut because its first documented appearance is in page 163 of Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (Paris, 1888), a work on meteorology for a general audience. The woodcut depicts a man peering through the Earth's atmosphere as if it were a curtain to look at the inner workings of the universe.

The original caption bellow the picture translated to: "A medieval missionary (Bruno) tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet...".

"During the 19th century, the Romantic conception of a European "Dark Age" gave much more prominence to the Flat Earth model than it ever possessed historically. The widely circulated woodcut of a man poking his head through the firmament of a flat Earth to view the mechanics of the spheres, executed in the style of the 16th century cannot be traced to an earlier source than Camille Flammarion's L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888, p. 163) [1]. The woodcut illustrates the statement in the text that a medieval missionary claimed that "he reached the horizon where the earth and the heavens met", an anecdote that may be traced back to Voltaire, but not to any known medieval source. In its original form, the woodcut included a decorative border that places it in the 19th century; in later publications, some claiming that the woodcut did, in fact, date to the 16th century, the border was removed. Flammarion, according to anecdotal evidence, had commissioned the woodcut himself. In any case, no source of the image earlier than Flammarion's book is known. (quote from Flat Earth)