Camille Flammarion

Le Monde Avant La Creation de L'Homme

Origines de La Terre, Origines de La Vie, Origines de L'Humanite

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Produktbeschreibung

French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) won acclaim for bringing science to a general readership. His Astronomie populaire (1880) and its translation into English as Popular Astronomy (1894) are both reissued in this series. The present work, on the origins of the Earth and humankind, sold tens of thousands of copies. Flammarion's original purpose was to update Zimmermann's Le monde avant la création de l'homme, published a quarter of a century earlier. However, scientific understanding had progressed so much that he decided to rewrite the work completely. First published in 1886, it contains some 400 wood engravings depicting dramatic landscapes, dinosaurs, fossils and much more. Ranging from early chapters on the universe and solar system, through to later discussion of the emergence of humankind after aeons of evolution, this book will prove an absorbing read for those interested in a nineteenth-century perspective on the origins of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 882
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2014
• Französisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1623g
• ISBN-13: 9781108067836
• ISBN-10: 1108067832
• Artikelnr.: 40720028

Autorenporträt

Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS[1] (French: [nik¿la kamij flama¿j¿~]; 26 February 1842 - 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. Camille Flammarion was born in Montigny-le-Roi, Haute-Marne, France. He was the brother of Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), founder of the Groupe Flammarion publishing house. He was a founder and the first president of the Société astronomique de France, which originally had its own independent journal, BSAF (Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France), first published in 1887. In January 1895, after 13 volumes of L'Astronomie and 8 of BSAF, the two merged, making L'Astronomie the Bulletin of the Societé. The 1895 volume of the combined journal was numbered 9, to preserve the BSAF volume numbering, but this had the consequence that volumes 9 to 13 of L'Astronomie can each refer to two different publications, five years apart from each other.[2] The "Flammarion engraving" first appeared in Flammarion's 1888 edition of L'Atmosphère. In 1907, he wrote that he believed that dwellers on Mars had tried to communicate with the Earth in the past.[3] He also believed in 1907 that a seven-tailed comet was heading toward Earth.[4] In 1910, for the appearance of Halley's Comet, he believed the gas from the comet's tail "would impregnate [the Earth's] atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.

Inhaltsangabe

Avertissement des éditeurs
Les premiers jours de la terre
Livre I. Le Commencement du Monde: 1. La genèse des mondes. Les nébuleuses
2. La formation du système solaire
3. La naissance de la terre
Livre II. L'Age Primordial: 1. Les origines de la vie
2. Les origines de la vie (cont.)
3. Développement et progression de la vie
4. Premières plantes et premiers animaux
Livre III. L'Age Primaire: 1. Les époques de la nature
2. Les transformations actuelles du sol
3. Le développement de la vie
4. La période carbonifère
5. Fin des temps primaires
Livre IV. L'Age Secondaire: 1. La période triasique
2. La période jurassique
3. La période crétacée
Livre V. L'Age Tertiare: 1. La période éocène
2. La période miocène
3. La période pliocène
Livre VI. L'Age Quaternaire: 1. Le quatrième âge de la vie terrestre et les premiers jours de l'ère actuelle
2. La création de l'homme
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