FIG. 5. How a scale lies, in 7 steps. The parts are the False Balance's: beam, pans, pivot, standard, wedge. Stepped-explainer format after Maxime Heckel's "Lighting That Feels Just Right". Move the pointer over the diagram, or hold Shift and use the arrow keys, to bend its dots. Backdrop collage from the archives: papyrus of Ani and Hunefer, an etching of Justice, the 1877 Bangalore famine, a New York bread line. Credits.