Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault He designed a special pendulum known as Foucalt Pendulum, which worked on the Newton's law of Motion. For more info refer to: https://galileospendulum.org/2013/09/19/measuring-the-rotation-of-earth Hope it helps. Stay blessed :)
French physicist and engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788 – 1827) contributed significantly to the establishment of what theory?
19th century French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, having supervised the construction of the Suez canal, was later famously tried and convicted for what?
18th century French adventuress Marie du Barry was mistress to Louis XV from 1769 until banished to the country in 1774. How did she die after she returned from a trip to England to sell her jewels in 1793?
Which book, the title of which references a device to demonstrate Earth's rotation, is a satirical and literarily playful novel by an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator?
