Flammarion, Camille, French astronomer, born at Montigny-le-Roi; he was attached to the Paris Observatory in 1858, and by means of books and lectures has spent a busy life in popularising his science; many of his works have been translated into English; (b. 1842).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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