High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Flammarion woodcut is an anonymous wood engraving (once believed to be a woodcut), so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphere: meteorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"). The engraving depicts a man, dressed as a mediaeval pilgrim and carrying a pilgrim's staff, who peers through the sky as if it were a curtain to look at the hidden workings of the universe. In 1957, astronomer Ernst Zinner claimed that the image dated to the German Renaissance, but he was unable to find any version published earlier than 1906. Further investigation, however, revealed that the work was a composite of images characteristic of different historical periods, and that it had been made with a burin, used for wood engraving only since the late 18th century.

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