Biography Q3

Camille Flammarion

Flammarion was born on 1842, February 26, in  France. When he was a student he studied astronomy from 1858 - 1862. After fourteen years Flammarion went to the Paris Observatory for six years. After he was finished with Paris Observatory he built the Juvisy Observatory. He also in 1892, founded the French Astronomical Society. Even though he was an astronomer he was also a scientist, he did multiple experiments on the upper atmosphere because he needed more research for double or multiple stars and the topography of Mars. Because of his many findings France awarded him the Legion of Honor, this award is one of Frances highest nonmilitary award.

Flammarion first was introduced into the physical phenomena world when he met Allan Kardec in 1861. Flammarion was writing his book The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, when he was invited to join the society  for Phycological studies, which he joined. At this society Flammarion created many phrases that related to astronomy, he later was promoted to cheif Parisian spiritistic circles and realized that this society is a joke and left it. Later, in 1865, he published a book about the invisible force that was gravity, it was called Des Forces Naturelles inconnues. He later went around to disprove that ghosts are true.

Flammarion died at the Juvisy Observatory, Paris, on June 3, 1925. Then a "spiritualist" claimed that his name was Egoland in the spirit world.