A replica of Foucault's famous experiment at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnica in Milan, Italy Wikimedia Commons On February 3, 1851, a 32-year-old Frenchman—who’d dropped out of medical ...

Most of us accept that the Earth rotates because we have been taught it since childhood. We have seen satellite images, ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...

So, last week in Paris, I visited the Pantheon, the national temple dedicated to the values of Republican France. I had never been, and was eager to see it. Must admit it really disturbed me. Ignorant ...