Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
The concept of Earth's rotation was first proposed by ancient Greek astronomers such as Aristarchus in the 3rd century BCE. However, the Earth's rotation was definitively proven by the French physicist Léon Foucault in 1851 with his invention of the Foucault pendulum, which demonstrated the rotation of the Earth through the movement of a swinging pendulum.
Jean Foucault
WHAT did Foucault's pendulum demonstrate in the year 1851 C.E. ? It confirmed for many and demonstrated the rotation of the earth on it's axis. The principal of the earth's rotation was proven by suspending a "pointed pendulum" with it's tip & terminus just barely in contact with a smooth level area of sand. The pattern changes overtime, this can only happen if the earth is rotating. This apparatus is elegant in it's simplicity and irrefutable proof of earth rotation.
In 1851, the French physicist Jean Léon Foucault hung a 67-meter pendulum from the dome of the Panthéon.
a physicist= un physicien, une physicienne
A French physicist
The Gyroscope was invented by Léon Foucault in 1852.
The French army rescues the narrator from his prison in "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe. They arrive just in time to save him from the descending pendulum, which would have killed him.
Guillaume Amontons was an important middle ages French physicist.
In Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum," the prisoner is rescued by the French army at the last moment before the descending pendulum can harm him. The story ends with his dramatic rescue from the dungeon.
The narrator in "The Pit and the Pendulum" is rescued by General Lasalle, a French army officer who arrives just in time to save him from being killed by the descending pendulum.
In Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum," the narrator is saved from the descending razor-sharp pendulum at the last moment by French soldiers who liberate him from the Spanish Inquisition dungeon.