Camille
Flammarion
1842-1925
FRENCH ASTRONOMER and popular author. Founder of the French Astronomy
Society. Served for many years at the Paris Observatory and the Bureau of
Longitudes. Set up a private observatory at Juvisy (near Paris) in 1883
and continued his studies, especially of double and multiple stars and of
the moon and Mars.
He is noted chiefly as the author of popular books on astronomy, including
Popular Astronomy and The Atmosphere. He was later to write extensively on
psychical research, and produced classic works such as Death and Its
Mystery, vols. 1, 2 and 3. One-time President of the SPR in 1923.
Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).
Articles by Camille Flammarion on this website:
Manifestations of the Dead in Spiritistic Experiments
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