__1851: __ Léon Foucault uses a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. It is the first direct visual evidence not based on watching the stars circle in the sky. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault ...
SOME four years since, while arranging a Foucault's pendulum for use in the class-room, it occurred to me to endeavour to obtain a permanent record of the experiment, and as the results were very good ...
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 ...