The year is 1851, and doubts regarding the Earth spinning is also a massive one, as many people argue over this activity of the planet and how it relates to other entities in the galaxy. However, the ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

The first Foucault’s pendulum I ever saw was at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the city where I was born. The pendulum hung in a stairwell. Its wire was attached to the ceiling four stories ...

In the months following Jean Bernard Leon Foucault's early 1851 demonstration in Paris of the earth's diurnal rotation with a vibrating pendulum, members of the entire scientific community, as well as ...