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175 Years Ago, He Set Out to Prove the Earth Was Spinning. His Experiment Took the World By Storm.
Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.
PROF. GREENHILL gives currency to quite an erroneous idea, in last week's NATURE (p. 50). He says “in the Foucault experiment of the pendulum which shows the rotation of the earth, the slightest ...
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