Word: foucaults
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Dates: during 1902-1902
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...well of the stairway in the addition affords excellent opportunity for repeating Foucault's celebrated experiment demonstrating the rotation of the earth, by means of swinging a long pendulum, the deflection of which from its plane shows the rotation of the earth. During the second half year this experiment will be tried...