print email comment close About Foucault Pendulums and How They Prove the Earth Rotates! URL: http://www.calacademy.org/products/pendulum/ Description: This youth-friendly, tutorial-designed site introduces readers to the background and scientific utility of the Foucault Pendulum and provides information about its inventor, French physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. The site map on the main page provides a convenient index for specific topics. From the California Academy of Sciences. Publisher: California Academy of Sciences Library of Congress Subject Headings: Earth -- Rotation Foucault's pendulum Physics LII Database Information: Record 10108 created by Karen Schneider on 12/15/2003 Last modification on 12/17/2003 Published: 12/15/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10108