Flammarion engraving
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The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, published in 1888 by the French astronomer and w
A traveller peers through an opening in the firmament in this illustration from Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire (Paris: Hachette, 1888), p. 163
Ophanim
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The ophanim, alternatively spelled auphanim or ofanim, and also called galgalim, refer to the wheels seen in Ezekiel's vision of the chariot in Ezekiel 1:15–21. One of the Dead Sea Scrolls construes t
Flammarion engraving
…marvelous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns. One of the elements of the cosmic machinery resembles traditional pictorial representations of the "wheel in the middle of a wheel" described in the visions of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel. The wood engraving has often, but erroneously, been referred to as a woodcut. It has been…
A traditional depiction of the chariot vision by Matthaeus (Matthäus) Merian (1593-1650), based on the description in Ezekiel, with an ʼōp̄ān on the right side.
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