#JeanBernard
Sitting Cat (1815)
#JeanBernard
Sitting Cat (1815)
#JeanBernard #Leonfoucault #museumscienceindustry @msichicago In 1850, he did an experiment using a rotating mirror to measure the speed of light; it was viewed as "driving the last nail in the coffin" of Newton's corpuscular theory of light when it showed that light travels more slowly through water than through air.[4] In 1851, he provided an experimental demonstration of the rotation of the Earth on its axis (diu
#JeanBernard #Leonfoucault #museumscienceindustry @msichicago In 1850, he did an experiment using a rotating mirror to measure the speed of light; it was viewed as "driving the last nail in the coffin" of Newton's corpuscular theory of light when it vrth on its axis (diu