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English: Arrangement for rapid demonstration of the (apparent) change of the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum. While the extreme of the wing moves only a short distance from A to C, its projection moves much further from a to c.
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Source A Voyage in Space[1].
Author Herbert Hall Turner

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