Urania

About this book

Urania, the muse of astronomy, takes an observer beyond Earth. Human life becomes a small point among inhabited worlds, and questions about love and death acquire a different scale beneath the stars.

Camille Flammarion combines popular astronomy with visionary fiction in a sequence of cosmic encounters. Some passages imagine forms of life and perception far removed from the human body. The illustrated editions deepen the sense of distance, setting tiny figures against vast celestial scenes. Flammarion's science belongs to the nineteenth century, but the strange emotional effect of looking back at Earth from an unimaginable distance remains easy to feel.