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Quel physicien français a montré en 1851, avec un grand pendule installé au Panthéon à Paris, que la Terre tourne sur elle-même ?

Translation: Which French physicist showed in 1851, with a large pendulum in the Panthéon in Paris, that the Earth rotates on its axis?

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

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Léon Foucault a présenté son pendule au public en 1851. Le plan d'oscillation semble tourner lentement, ce qui prouve la rotation de la Terre.

Léon Foucault presented his pendulum to the public in 1851. Its swing plane appears to turn slowly, which proves the Earth's rotation.

Source: Musée des Arts et Métiers, encyclopédie

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