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Figure 61 from Popular Astronomy by Camille Flammarion translated by J

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Figure 61 from Popular Astronomy by Camille Flammarion translated by J. Ellard Gore; published in 1894. An example of the surface of the moon being bettermapped than the floor of the ocean, a situation that exists to this day.

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Voyage to Inner Space