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Sphere of Léon Foucault's pendulum at the Musée des Arts et Métiers

Musée des Arts et Métiers · Le Marais

Le pendule de Foucault

Now showingPermanent collection·€12

Léon Foucault's 1851 pendulum, a brass-clad lead sphere whose slowly rotating swing was the first laboratory demonstration that the Earth turns on its axis.

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