Pendulum Léon Foucault and the triumph of science
In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Lǒn Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthǒn 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...
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New York :
Washington Square Press,
2004, c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A stunning discovery in the cellar
- Ancient logic: Bible and inquisition
- Failed experiments with falling bodies-- A science "irregular" in the age of the engineer
- The meridian of Paris
- "Come see the earth turn"
- Mathematical Bedlam
- A new Bonaparte
- The force of Coriolis
- The Panthéon
- The Gyroscope
- The Coup d'État and the second empire
- An unemployed genius
- The observatory physicist
- Final glory
- A premature end
- The defeat at Sedan
- Aftermath.
