Pendulum
Subtitle: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
Edition: 1st Atria edition
Publisher: Atria
Published: August 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743464789
Subjects: History; Religion and science; Foucault, Leon,; Biography & Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography / Autobiography; Physics; Biography/Autobiography; Physicists; France; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; Scientists; 1819-1868; 19th century
First sentence: From his journal, we know that he made the discovery at exactly two o'clock in the morning on January 6, 1851.