Where Heaven and Earth Meet, 1888
A Flammarion wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosph̬re: m̩t̩orologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The original caption translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth "
Size: 3000px × 2500px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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