Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science. Amir D. Aczel

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Publisher: Atria Books
Page: 288
ISBN: 9781416588436

He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet LГ©on Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Like Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and others before him, Foucault sensed a dramatic relationship between the rotating skies above and the seemingly motionless ground beneath our feet. But it wasn't until 1851 -- in Paris, inside the PanthГ©on, and in the company of fellow amateur scientist Napoleon III -- that Foucault swung a pendulum and demonstrated an extraordinary truth about the world: that it turns on its axis. Pendulum is a fascinating journey through the mind and findings of one of the most important and ...

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