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Book ID: CBB000470358

The Life and Science of Léon Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates (2003)

Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521808553

Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: With a foreword by David de Vorkin
Physical Details: xiv + 338 pp.; ill.; appendices; notes; index
Language: English

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Physics Amateurs Biographies Geophysics Pendulums Scientific apparatus and instruments 19th century Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon

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Review Conlin, Michael F. (2005) Review of "The Life and Science of Léon Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 668). unapi

Review Débarbat, Suzanne (2005) Review of "The Life and Science of Léon Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 354). unapi

Review Michaelis, Anthony (2004) Review of "The Life and Science of Léon Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (p. 212). unapi

Review Quinn, Terry (2004) Review of "The Life and Science of Léon Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (p. 239). unapi

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