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Les terres du ciel; voyage astronomique sur les autres mondes et description des conditions actuelles de la vie sur les diverses planètes du système solaire;

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts), 1821-1907, former owner. DSI, Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, printer of plates, E. Bernard et cie, photographer · 1884 · Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion · 3 pictures

Flammarion's 1884 Paris popular astronomy book Les terres du ciel, a French-language tour of life on the planets printed by Lemercier and published by Marpon and Flammarion for a general lay readership. The pictures are black-and-white halftone-style plates: rows of dark-ground circular telescope views of Mars, a grid of rings showing Saturn's globe at changing tilts, and a line diagram of the solar system's motion through space, all useful for designers wanting scientific engraving textures and diagrammatic framing.

Planets · Utopias · Life on other planets

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