Camille Flammarion (fr. Camille Flammarion, February 26, 1842 - June 3, 1925) - French astronomer, known popularizer of astronomy. In 1861 he published a book "The multiplicity of inhabited worlds", which was the beginning of a large series of his famous astronomical work. In the book "The multiplicity of inhabited worlds", which soon after the publication has been translated into many languages, and only in France for twenty years, thirty times reprinted, Flammarion one of the first to formulate the thesis about the comparability of civilizations in terms of development, "... All of humanity inhabiting different planets, make up one common associated chain of thinking beings... In all the universe of humanity do not remain at the same stage of development; they rise higher, they create among the infinite variety of stellar worlds.... "
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