Augustin Charpentier (1852 – 4 August 1916) was a French physician.
In 1891 he carried out the first experiment providing evidence of the
size-weight illusion. He carried out a various number of procedures comparing what people thought was the heaviness of lifted weights. He realized that lifters thought that larger objects were lighter than smaller objects of the same mass.
See also
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Size–weight illusion
The size–weight illusion, also known as the Charpentier illusion, is named after the French physician Augustin Charpentier because he was the first to demonstrate the illusion experimentally.
It is also called De Moor's illusion, named after Bel ...
External links
* http://www.professeurs-medecine-nancy.fr/Charpentier_A.htm (in French)
19th-century French physicians
1852 births
1916 deaths
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