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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:45, 3 January 2017		3,000 × 2,500 (2.92 MB)	127.0.0.1 (talk)	The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving" class="extiw" title="en:Flammarion engraving">Flammarion engraving</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wood_engraving" class="extiw" title="en:wood engraving">wood engraving</a> by an unknown artist that first appeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion" class="extiw" title="en:Camille Flammarion">Camille Flammarion</a>'s <i>L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire</i> (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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyrean" class="extiw" title="en:Empyrean">Empyrean</a> beyond. The caption underneath the engraving (not shown here) translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."