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they are heterogeneous, from spirits of an incomprehensible nature. The being evoked soon vanishes when one insists on pushing him to the wall and having the heart out of his mystery. That souls survive the destruction of the body I have not the shadow of a doubt. But that they manifest themselves by the processes employed in séances the experimental method has not yet given us absolute proof. I add that this hypothesis is not at all likely. If the souls of the dead are about us, upon our planet, the invisible population would increase at the rate of 100,000 a day, about 36 millions a year, 3 billions 620 millions in a century, 36 billions in ten centuries, etc.—unless we admit re-incarnations upon the earth itself. How many times do apparitions or manifestations occur? When illusions, auto-suggestions, hallucinations are eliminated what remains? Scarcely anything. Such an exceptional rarity as this pleads against the reality of apparitions.
1442:. London, Watts & Co. p. 57. "The impressions of faces which she got in wax or putty were always her face. I have seen many of them. The strong bones of her face impress deep. Her nose is relatively flattened by the pressure. The hair on the temples is plain. It is outrageous for scientific men to think that either "John King" or an abnormal power of the medium made a human face (in a few minutes) with bones and muscles and hair, and precisely the same bones and muscles and hair as those of Eusapia. I have seen dozens of photographs of her levitating a table. On not a single one are her person and dress entirely clear of the table." 1946: 467: 342:, Flammarion combined with a religious conviction derived, not from the Catholic faith upon which he had been raised, but from the writings of Jean Reynaud and their emphasis upon the transmigration of souls. Man he considered to be a “citizen of the sky,” other worlds “studios of human work, schools where the expanding soul progressively learns and develops, assimilating gradually the knowledge to which its aspirations tend, approaching thus evermore the end of its destiny.” 130: 1965: 191: 964: 426:, he thought the "canals" were artificial in nature and most likely the "rectification of old rivers aimed at the general distribution of water to the surface of the continents." He assumed the planet was in an advanced stage of its habitability, and the canals were the product of an intelligent species attempting to survive on a dying world. 357:, a human character meets the soul of an alien, able to cross the universe faster than light, that has been reincarnated on many different worlds, each with its own gallery of organisms and their evolutionary history. Other than that, his writing about other worlds adhered fairly closely to then current ideas in 364:
The fusion of science, science fiction and the spiritual influenced other readers as well; "With great commercial success he blended scientific speculation with science fiction to propagate modern myths such as the notion that “superior” extraterrestrial species reside on numerous planets, and that
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This is very far from being demonstrated. The innumerable observations which I have collected during more than forty years all prove to me the contrary. No satisfactory identification has been made. The communications obtained have always seemed to proceed from the mentality of the group, or when
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in November 1909, responding to such claims by others, he stated that "The poisoning of humanity by deleterious gases is improbable", and correctly stated that the matter in the comet's tail is so tenuous that it would have no noticeable effect. However, he also indulged in a "thought experiment"
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believed they saw a network of lines on its surface, which were named "canals" by Schiaparelli. These turned out to be an optical illusion due to the limited observing instruments of the time, as revealed by better telescopes in the 1920s. Camille, a contemporary of Schiaparelli, extensively
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He could not have made his position any clearer - yet many papers ignored this rebuttal, and continued a campaign of misquoting and fabrication for the sake of sensational headlines. Flammarion was, in fact, the victim of a deliberate character assassination, in order to sell papers!
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When astronomers announced that the Earth would pass through the tail of Halley's Comet in May 1910, Flammarion was widely reported, in numerous American newspapers, as believing that toxic gases in the tail might "snuff out all life on the planet". In fact, he said no such thing.
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did not find the evidence convincing. He noted that the impressions of faces in putty were always of Palladino's face and could have easily been made, and she was not entirely clear from the table in the levitation photographs.
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the human soul evolves through cosmic reincarnation. Flammarion's influence was great, not just on the popular thought of his day, but also on later writers with similar interests and convictions." In the English translation of
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and organizations appearing all over Europe. He has been described as an "astronomer, mystic and storyteller" who was "obsessed by life after death, and on other worlds, and seemed to see no distinction between the two".
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who wrote "the work's fundamental faults are a lack of critical judgment in the estimation of evidence, and of an appreciation of the nature of the logical conditions which the study of these problems presents."
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and wrote, "It is infinitely to be regretted that we cannot trust the loyalty of mediums. They almost always cheat". However, Flammarion, a believer in psychic phenomena, attended séances with
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and pluralism. He was convinced that souls after the physical death pass from planet to planet and progressively improve at each new incarnation. In 1862 he published his first book,
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inject various gases into the atmosphere. Sensation-seeking papers chose to quote only the latter part, leading to the widespread misconception that Flammarion actually believed it.
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The New York Times reported that the noted French astronomer, Camille Flammarion believed the gas "would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet".
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after death but wrote that mediumship had not been scientifically proven. Even though Flammarion believed in the survival of the soul after death he did not believe in the
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and astronomy. Among other things, he believed that all planets went through more or less the same stages of development, but at different rates depending on their sizes.
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in "Death and Its Mystery", 1921, 3 volumes. Translated by Latrobe Carroll (1923, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. London: Adelphi Terrace.). Partial online version at
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who wrote it "fails to supply adequate proof of the veracity of the conglomeration of hearsay it contains; it must, therefore, be a collection of myths."
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and claimed that some of her phenomena were genuine. He produced in his book alleged levitation photographs of a table and an impression of a face in
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Mysterious psychic forces: an account of the author's investigations in psychical research, together with those of other European savants
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As a young man, Flammarion was exposed to two significant social movements in the western world: the thoughts and ideas of
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Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931
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correspondent. M. Flammarion had just returned from abroad, and was in the act of reading a letter from Prof. Lowell.
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is the explanation and there is no evidence for the spirit hypothesis. Flammarion believed in the survival of the
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Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud?: The Evidence Given By Sir A. C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined
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theory and "exceptionally and rarely the dead do manifest" in hauntings. He was also a member of the
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had tried to communicate with Earth in the past. He also believed in 1907 that a seven-tailed
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cited Flammarion as having had a significant influence on his childhood interest in science.
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later the same year. It is not quite clear if these two incidents are related to each other.
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Death and its mystery—proofs of the existence of the soul; Volume 2—At the moment of death
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The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication
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researched the so-called "canals" during the 1880s and 1890s. Like American astronomer
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its bulletin. The 1895 volume of the combined journal was numbered 9, to preserve the
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and Berthe Martin-Flammarion, and uncle of a woman named Zelinda. His first wife was
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilisation
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilisation
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Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs
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Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs
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Pearson's Magazine. Volume 20. Issue 4. Pearson Publishing Company. 1908. p. 383
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Death and its mystery—proofs of the existence of the soul; Volume 1—Before death
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in October 1923 Flammarion summarized his views after 60 years of investigating
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Death and its mystery—proofs of the existence of the soul; Volume 3—After death
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and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including
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volume numbering, but this had the consequence that volumes 9 to 13 of
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The Net Advance of Physics: History and Philosophy: Camille Flammarion
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but still claimed there was no evidence for the spirit hypothesis of
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of Spiritism, instead he believed that Spiritist activities such as
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From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity's Search for Spirits
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can each refer to two different publications five years apart.
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and levitations of objects could be explained by an unknown "
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On 1 February 1910, Flammarion published an update in the
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was heading toward Earth. In 1910, for the appearance of
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Reynaud, Jean (1806–1863) - The Worlds of David Darling
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In the 1920s Flammarion changed some of his beliefs on
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publishing house. In 1858 he became a professional at
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Manifestations of the Dead in Spiritistic Experiments
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M. Dinorben Griffith and Madame Camille Flammarion,
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1888 which does not have the Flammarion engraving).
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(Appears to be an earlier edition of 323:, and was dismissed from his position at the 235:Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France 164:works about astronomy, several notable early 2005:Newspaper clippings about Camille Flammarion 1572:. Social Forces. Vol. 4, No. 4. pp. 850–853. 1527:Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology 178:, starting in 1882. He maintained a private 1735: 1733: 1731: 1729: 1727: 1725: 377:have likely been influenced by Flammarion. 1708:. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 91. 1695: 1604: 1471:Modern Spiritism: Its Science and Religion 1305: 1217: 834:De Wereld vóór de Schepping van den Mensch 750:(The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds), 1862. 42: 1929:Works by Camille Flammarion in eBook form 1611:. Wesleyan University Press. p. 31. 1473:. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. pp. 32–101 1221:Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 1037: 830:works. An observer's handbook of its day. 557:could explain some paranormal phenomena. 553:" from the medium. He also believed that 1983:, with 102 library catalogue records 1739: 1722: 1424:. Small, Maynard and Company. pp. 63–135 1365: 1340: 465: 189: 128: 27:French astronomer and author (1842–1925) 1801: 14: 2020: 1701: 632:He was the first to suggest the names 1991:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 1705:Mars: A Tour of the Human Imagination 1691:. USGS Astrogeology Research Program. 1486:. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 406–454. 900:L’inconnu et les problèmes psychiques 824:Les Étoiles et les Curiosités du Ciel 683:is named in his honour. In addition, 461: 151: 1947:Works by or about Camille Flammarion 1804:"Les Obseques de Camille Flammarion" 1570:Haunted Houses by Camille Flammarion 840:L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire 770:L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire 369:, Brian Stableford argues that both 1689:Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1384: 848:, 1889 (translated into English as 778:, 1872 (translated into English as 766:L'atmosphère: Des Grands Phenomenes 529:After two years investigation into 24: 1269:. InterVarsity Press. p. 57. 1186:. InterVarsity Press. p. 56. 1154:. 12 November 2009. Archived from 730:, the French astronomical society. 25: 2114: 1922: 1457:The Unknown by Camille Flammarion 1118:"Flammarion's Seven Tailed Comet" 867:Omega: The Last Days of the World 735:Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur 695:is named after Flammarion's book 600:In a presidential address to the 429: 321:The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds 2063:20th-century French male writers 2048:19th-century French male writers 1963: 1742:Dictionary of Minor Planet Names 1529:. Kessinger Publishing. p. 337. 1370:. Prometheus Books. p. 83. 1345:. Prometheus Books. p. 64. 969:Bibliothèque nationale de France 470:A middle-aged Camille Flammarion 2068:19th-century French astronomers 2058:20th-century French astronomers 1904: 1893: 1877: 1851: 1840: 1826: 1795: 1770: 1677: 1651: 1625: 1598: 1575: 1559: 1539: 1516: 1496: 1476: 1463: 1445: 1427: 1412: 1403: 1359: 1334: 1325: 1316: 1299: 1283: 1256: 1245:Camille Flammarion's Collection 836:, 1886. A paleontological work. 748:La pluralité des mondes habités 608:. He wrote that he believed in 202:Camille Flammarion was born in 2083:French science fiction writers 1782:Société astronomique de France 1754:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1022 1238: 1211: 1200: 1173: 1138: 1110: 1072: 1046: 1006: 728:Société astronomique de France 602:Society for Psychical Research 443:about what might happen if it 399:Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion 225:Société astronomique de France 180:observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge 153:[nikɔlakamijflamaʁjɔ̃] 103:Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion 13: 1: 2043:19th-century French novelists 1588:. Visible Ink Press. p. 142. 1366:Goodrich, Richard J. (2023). 1341:Goodrich, Richard J. (2023). 1291:"A Wedding Tour in a Balloon" 999: 703:for the heroine of his novel 403:Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion 295:and the rising popularity of 108:Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion 2053:20th-century apocalypticists 2038:19th-century apocalypticists 1659:"George Gamow on Flammarion" 1482:Camille Flammarion. (1909). 1418:Camille Flammarion. (1909). 1306:Flammarion, Camille (1892). 826:, 1882. A supplement of the 185: 7: 2009:20th Century Press Archives 1962:(public domain audiobooks) 1956:Works by Camille Flammarion 1938:Works by Camille Flammarion 1549:. Scarecrow Press. p. 129. 982: 726:, the highest award of the 672:Flammarion (Martian crater) 405:, also a noted astronomer. 10: 2119: 1746:Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1469:Alfred Schofield. (1920). 482:from the viewpoint of the 401:, and his second wife was 142:Nicolas Camille Flammarion 55:Nicolas Camille Flammarion 18:Nicolas Camille Flammarion 2103:Reincarnation researchers 1971:Atlas cèleste, Paris 1877 1484:Mysterious Psychic Forces 1421:Mysterious Psychic Forces 1263:James A. Herrick (2008). 1180:James A. Herrick (2008). 754:Real and Imaginary Worlds 722:In 1897, he received the 697:Lumen: Récits de l'infini 687:commemorates his sister; 667:Flammarion (lunar crater) 655: 627: 562:Mysterious Psychic Forces 478:, psychical research and 393:Camille was a brother of 388: 332:Real and Imaginary Worlds 249:, the two merged, making 116: 95: 76: 50: 41: 34: 2088:French parapsychologists 1702:Rabkin, Eric S. (2005). 965:"Gallica search results" 741: 691:commemorates his niece; 2093:People from Haute-Marne 1331:Flammarion 1892, p. 586 1322:Flammarion 1892, p. 589 1039:10.1093/mnras/86.4.178a 949:Dreams of an Astronomer 497:Flammarion had studied 408: 2098:Writers from Grand Est 1973:at AtlasCoelestis.com] 1545:James Houran. (2004). 1296:(January 1899): 62–68. 915:Astronomy for Amateurs 828:L'Astronomie Populaire 804:Distances of the Stars 571: 474:Flammarion approached 471: 199: 138: 2078:French male novelists 1054:"Which l'Astronomie?" 923:Thunder and Lightning 566: 469: 438:In an article in the 415:Giovanni Schiaparelli 340:extraterrestrial life 307:He was influenced by 301:spiritualist churches 193: 168:novels, and works on 133:"Telefonoscope" from 132: 1802:Touchet, E. 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Index

Nicolas Camille Flammarion

Montigny-le-Roi
Juvisy-sur-Orge
Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion
Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
Ernest Flammarion

FRAS
[nikɔlakamijflamaʁjɔ̃]
astronomer
popular science
science fiction
psychical research
L'Astronomie
observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge

Flammarion engraving
Montigny-le-Roi
Haute-Marne
Groupe Flammarion
computery
Paris Observatory
Société astronomique de France
BSAF (Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France)
L'Astronomie
Flammarion engraving
Mars
comet
Halley's Comet

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