Meteorology is a quest of discovery, the challenge of boldly exploring where no one has gone before. That is the appeal and rhetorically durable theme which has made this woodcut so appealing. Many who have reprinted this illustration through the years have not recognized that it first appeared in a popular work on meteorology. Often misattributed to the Middle Ages or Renaissance, this book is its original source. Flammarion was an astronomer and popular science writer who worked at the Juvissy Observatory in Paris.