Flammarion Camille . [1842-1925] History of the sky [reprint 1875] 1994 [djvu 451sc 449c. 17. The Conversations I have recorded represent the public history of Astronomy, from the time when the Chaldean hierophants observed the stars from the height of the Tower of Babel to the present time, when the human genius revealed the secrets of creation and learned the true laws of the existence of the universe. Primitive Antiquity of Astronomy , Origins of the Celestial Sphere and Constellations , Views of the ancients on the structure of the world , Astrology , Heaven of the Gentiles and Heaven of the Christians , Forms, attached to the globe by Christopher Columbus, religious and scientific opinion on the structure of the sky before Copernicus , Imaginary Travels to Heaven , On the ground and even in the mysterious parts of the world , and t. d. and t. d. - this whole scientific and scientific panorama represents an immense spectacle, in which the whole soul and life of mankind is visible, so to speak, with its aspirations and impotence, with its feverish curiosity and longing, with its eternal constant desire to get to everything, to learn everything, it is necessary to rule everything . Let this popular history of Astronomy make everyone who reads understand and wonder at the greatness of the scientific works of the human mind. The mighty genius of which managed to penetrate all the secrets of the structure of the universe! Let this echo from the shores of the sea resonate in the soul of an educated person and awaken in him a love for majestic science , which has informed us of all the harmony and beauty of nature's creations!