Physical Demonstration of the Earth’s Motion of Rotation, pp. 575-578) (Foucault) + On the Theory of Probabilities, and in Particular on Mitchell's Problem of the Distribution of the Fixed Stars, pp. 521-530, (Boole) in The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Fourth Series, Vol. 1, 1851 [FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM + BOOLE'S FIRST PAPER ON THE LOGIC OF PROBABILITY]
London: 1851. FIRST DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH of FOUCAULT’S 1st MECHANICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE EARTH’S ROTATION, FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM. Also included is BOOLE’S FIRST PAPER ON THE LOGIC OF PROBABILITY. FOUCAULT: Copernicus explained the daily diurnal rotation of the earth on its polar axis in 1543, however it was Foucault, 300 years..... More