Pendulum : Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

Pendulum : Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

Amir D. Aczel

Språken
FörlagAtria Books
ISBN9781416588436

In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon 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 comp