Labels:bulletin board | hakham | monitor | person | poster | reckoner | road | sky | skyscraper | stairway OCR: device that helped him frame it as the window of his attic apartment called it his spy-hole as if it were small telescope, and his studic became analagous ta ar observatory which he eventually turned on the stars like the characters in the writings f Verme and Flammarion (Fig 36 The threads of Van Gogh's interests in maps astronomy and religion entwine in the late 1880s when he contemplates doing his series af stany nights. The catalyst for this development 1 Flammarion whose impact on Van Gogh's thought is noticeably felt in his letters f the period Both think- ers had ir common a punojord reverence tor Victor Hugo whose own terest in astronomy and psychical phenomena eventually drew him Flammarion. While Van Gogh never mentions Flammarion by name it is clear that he awes the astronomer m ...