At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

__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 ...

The year is 1851, and doubts regarding the Earth spinning is also a massive one, as many people argue over this activity of the planet and how it relates to other entities in the galaxy. However, the ...

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 ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...

Happy birthday, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, and thanks for the pendulum. The French physicist and inventor was born in Paris on this day in 1819. It may be hard to fathom, but the idea of Earth ...

William Tobin has written a biography of Léon Foucault, whom time and science forgot. The fact that Foucault has been overlooked is obvious from the book’s subtitle and the defensive preface. Clearly ...

Foucault pendulums are a popular feature in science museums around the world. This one hangs out in the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Photo: sylvar/Flickr __1851: __ Léon ...