Camille Flammarion Quote

We saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars.


Translated by Frances Alice Welby, Astronomy for Amateurs, Chapter II (p. 28)


We saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars.

We saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars.

We saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars.

We saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars.