Art, Symbol & Imagination
Flammarion’s Experimental Letter-Weigher
A flat circular pan stands above an angled frame with a large curved graduated scale. A round counterweight projects from one side of the mechanism. The caption identifies the instrument as the scales used in Flammarion’s experiment, discussed in the text as a letter-weigher.
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Photographer not identified. "Flammarion’s Experimental Letter-Weigher" [editorial title]. In Mysterious Psychic Forces, Camille Flammarion. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1907., 1907, Small, Maynard and Company. Source scan leaf 250. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0403-0244
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Photographer not identified. Flammarion’s Experimental Letter-Weigher. Mysterious Psychic Forces. Scan leaf 250. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0403-0244