An Astronomical Popularity: The Flammarion Papers, Science and Literature – ARCHIFLAMM
An astronomer, science popularizer and writer who was enormously popular in his lifetime, Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) left a vast amount of personal papers archive that has been little studied until now. The ARCHIFLAMM project has two main aims: (1) to prepare a digital scientific edition of his correspondence and parts of his archives; and (2) to use this unpublished corpus to explore from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective (history of science, cultural and social history, literary studies, anthropology) the foundations of the scholar's popularity on the margins of official science. ARCHIFLAMM will produce and stimulate new work in four interrelated areas of Flammarion's practice: (a) amateur science and observatory techniques; (b) epistemic and social dimensions of a transnational network; (c) literary techniques in popular scientific writings; (d) spiritualism and research into life after death and extraterrestrial life. ARCHIFLAMM relies on the collaboration of members of the Société astronomique de France (SAF), founded by Flammarion in 1887.
Project coordination
David Aubin (Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partnership
IMJ-PRG Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche
THALIM Théorie et histoire des arts et des littératures de la modernité
CRHEC Centre de Recherche en Histoire Européenne Comparée, de l'Antiquité à nos jours
CELLF Centre national de la recherche scientifique
CETHIS CENTRE TOURANGEAU D'HISTOIRE ET D'ETUDE DES SOURCES
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
SOC ASTRONOMIQUE DE FRANCE
Universiteit Antwerpen
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
CéSOR Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris
GSRL Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris
CESSP Centre national de la recherche scientifique
ECCE TERRA Observatoire des sciences de l'Univers Paris-Centre Ecce Terra
Help of the ANR 742,817 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
September 2024
- 48 Months
