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...picturesque French "savant"- the name may properly be applied to him-Camille Flammarion (TIME, Aug. 11, BOOKS) was inclined, according to his nature, to take a more romantic view...
...Flammarion Provides Eerie but Fascinating Enjoyment...
Significance. Camille Flammarion self-admittedly lives more in the heavens than on the earth. Henri Poincare, rather of ex-Premier Poincare, the greatest French mathematician since Pascal, once said that Flammarion was a poet whose gifts enabled him " to describe the sky so as to make people who did not know it love it." Perhaps it was this combination of poet and astronomer that made M. Flammarion write Haunted Houses. The appeal of astral bodies is, after all, only faintly removed from that of the psychic world. The book is disappointing from a scientific point of view; but from that...
...Author. Camille Flammarion, born in 1842, has since the age of 16 devoted himself entirely to astronomy. He founded a monthly review, L'Astronomie, the Observatory at Juvisy and the Astronomical Society of France. Among his works: Marvels of the Heavens, The Atmosphere, Urania, Omega, The Last Days of the World, Astronomy for Amateurs. For 58 years, he has never taken a penny of author's right for his work, Annuaire Astronomique, published annually. Out of sheer admiration for his selfless devotion to his studies, one M. Meret provided him with a country estate, "La Cour de France...
...HAUNTED HOUSES-Camilla Flammarion-Appleton...