Camille Flammarion biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Camille Flammarion

Author Name:

Camille Flammarion

Born As:

Nicolas Camille Flammarion

Other Names:

Nicolas Camille Flammarion

Born:

26 Feb 1842

Died:

3 Jun 1925




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Astronomer and author                          
Selected Works:

La pluralité des mondes habités - The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds - 1862.
Real and Imaginary Worlds - 1864.
Lumen - 1867.
Récits de l'infini - 1872.
L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire - 1888.
Astronomie populaire - 1880. His best-selling work - it was translated into English as Popular Astronomy in 1894.
Les Étoiles et les Curiosités du Ciel - 1882. A supplement of the L'Astronomie Populaire works. An observer's handbook of its day.
Uranie - 1890.
La planète Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité - 1892.

La Fin du Monde - The End of the World -  1893 - is a science fiction novel about a comet colliding with the Earth - followed by several million years leading up to the gradual death of the planet. It has recently been brought back into print as 
Omega: The Last Days of the World.