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Urania

Camille Flammarion

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .onomers who calculate the movements of the stars in their daily passage of the meridian, those who foretell eclipses, celestial phenomena, periodical comets, who observe the exact positions of the stars and planets on the different degrees of the celestial sphere so carefully; those who discover comets, planets, satellites, and variable stars; those who investigate and determine the disturbance caused the Earth's motion by attraction from the Moon and planets; those who consecrate their night-watches to the discovery of the fundamental elements of the world's system,—are all of them calculators and observers, precursors of the new astronomy. These are immense labors, studies worthy of admiration, and important works which bring to light the highest faculties of the human mind. But it is the army of the past; mathematicians and geometricians. Henceforth, the hearts of savants will throb for a still nobler conquest. All these great minds never really left the E. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Ciencia y disque filosofía se encuentran. La ciencia aunque a veces muy desactualizada es interesante, especialmente el espacio; la pseudo filosofía/espiritualidad raya en un idealismo incoherente, por ejemplo almas de intelectuales viviendo en Marte porque buscan el conocimiento y valen más que los

Guided in by the angelic apparition of the beautiful Urania, the narrator is taken on an incredible tour of the solar system and outer space, where he is shown fantastic forms of life other planets. Back on Earth he is visited telepathically by his good friends, a young, dreaming couple who have los

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I think it's fair to say that Camille Flammarion was to the Victorian age what Carl Sagan was to my generation and Neil deGrasse Tyson is today. He wrote numerous books about the astronomy of his day and influenced many people to take up astronomy as a career. Like Sagan, Flammarion also wrote scien

This book was an accidental purchase, confusing the title for an altogether different book and ordering it. It turned out to be a pleasant accident, perhaps extra-coincidental. Urania is one of the nine sisters/muses of Greek mythology. This story, published in 1890, tells of a man who admires a sta