Seward daily gateway., 1925-06-04
CAMILLE FLAMMARION,
 POET-ASTRONOMER OF
 FRANCE PASSES AWAY

PARIS, June 4-(P)-Camille Flam- marion, astronomer of France, died in his observatory today near Juvis- sy.
 Camille Flammarion, the French poet-astronomer, made astronomy pop ular to the layman. He sugar-coated astronomical facts, but while he won applause from the layman some of his serious-minded contemporaries in the study of astronomy attacked many of his theories as pure fancies.
 He was the founder, however, of the famous observatory at Juvissy and of the Astronomical Society of France His books include Marvel of the Heavens" Popular Astrono- my" and Mysterious Psychic For ces."
 Tn October 1920, when in his 18th year, M Flammarion married Miss Gabrielle Renaudot, who collaborated with him the writing of some of his best works.
 | Flammarion, when boy nine years old, witnessed the sun eclpsed by the moon. Owing by the pheno- menon, his chief concern was in how astronomers, who predicted this event were able to tell. Thereafter the lad could usually be found at sun set on q neighboring hill watching the departing orb and waiting for the appearance of the stars.
 In his 18th year, he wrote a book on the origin of the world, but, in his own words, Tt luckily never met publisher"
 He entered the famous Paris Ob- servatory, and became on assistant astronomer to LeVellier and wrote his first published book at 19 years of age. It was translated at once to almost every language.
 He soon assumed direction of the scientific review Cosmos" and also published his second scientific work. 'The World Imaginary and the World Real" was the name of it.
 With the famous Aeronaut Goddard, the young astronomer ascended in balloons 10 study the heavens. These observations extended over a period of five years. .A
 During the Franco-Prussion war in 1871, he demonstrated the practical application of his knowledge of as- tronomy and telescope. Hidden in an observatory at Passy, a captain of a special corps, he commissioned other astronomers to assist him in study ing the Prussian troops banked around Paris.
 All overtures for public offices af- ter the war were refused by Flam- marion. He devoted himself to study ing double and bultiple stars, their colors and proper motions and sun- spots, the branches of the science in which he specialized.
 Most of his great achievements during the latter part of his life were accomplished in his observatory al historic Juvissy. It was called the halfway house of Kings and cour- tiers" Here Napoleon had received the news of the fall of Paris and from here he departed to Fontaine- bleu to bid adieu to his army, in 1914. The estate was a gift to Flammarion from an admirer, Mir. Meret. Flammarion will be remembered for his many books, written in a po- etic and philosophic vein. While great secrets of the universe are therein disclosed, they are clothed in language that is as entertaining as novel It is on this that his popu- lar fame rests.
 Flammarion himself had said With in the last quarter of century our sublime science has been wholly transformed Instead of watching in ert masses in motion thru the void of space, the study of the evolutions of the stars and life had taken it's the old school, and may be looked place. It is a signal advance over upon as likely to prove the grandest feature of astronomical science in the near future"