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Quel physicien a montré en 1851 la rotation de la Terre avec un grand pendule, sous la coupole du Panthéon ?

Translation: Which physicist showed the Earth's rotation in 1851 with a large pendulum under the dome of the Panthéon?

  • ✕ André-Marie Ampère Your answer
  • B Henri Becquerel
  • C Augustin Fresnel
  • ✓ Léon Foucault

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Léon Foucault a suspendu un pendule de 67 mètres sous la coupole du Panthéon à Paris. Le lent changement de direction de son oscillation prouvait que la Terre tourne sur elle-même.

Léon Foucault hung a 67-metre pendulum under the dome of the Panthéon in Paris. The slow change in its swing direction proved that the Earth rotates on its axis.

Source: Encyclopédie (Larousse) : Léon Foucault ; Panthéon (monuments-nationaux.fr)

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