this page honors Camille Flammarion (1842-1925)

Camille Flammarion was a writer who was one of the first populizers of astronomy and his two-volume book, La Planète Mars, remains relevant today.

As a teenager and young man, he worked as an assistant to U.J.J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. After several major literary successes, he built an observatory dedicated to Mars at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.

Click on the controls to listen to the music! HELP

__
For more about Mars, see The Planet Mars: a History of Observation & Discovery by William Sheehan, which is available on the web.

Copyright 2000-2005 by Fleur Helsingor. All rights reserved.
Contact: send email to "fleur" at <well.com>.