Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars As Translated by Patrick Moore / by Camille Flammarion ; edited by William Sheehan.
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own—the habitability o...
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