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"In 1851 a young French physicist erected a giant pendulum in the heart of Paris and showed astonished spectators that the Earth was turning beneath their feet. Pendulum mania swept the learned and everyday worlds and Leon Foucault's name became synonymous with his famous pendulum. The demonstration continues to captivate a century and a half later." "The history and interpretation of the pendulum experiment are described in terms suitable for the...
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In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Lǒn Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthǒn in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including the future emperor, Napoleon III -- that the earth revolves on its axis. In this book, Amir Aczel has revealed...
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