Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Camille Flammarion Contemporary Review

Subjects:

Astronomy, Entropy, Prognostication, Futurism, Imagination

    In an 'interesting imaginative paper' the 'well-known French astronomer' presents a vision of life in the year 2,200,000, when the 'exhaustion of the sun's heat' forces the last remnants of humanity to dwell in 'the heart of equatorial Africa' as a single 'unified race' who 'drop dead of total exhaustion about their twenty-fifth year'.