Show VISUAL PROOF THAT THE EARTH REVOLVES ne york jan 16 Visual proof that the earth revolves is to bo made at columbia university in february by professors harold jacoby and S A mitchell the plan adopted by fan cault in paris in 1851 is to bo used by means of a long pendulum suspended from the dome of the pantheon he proved that the plane of the latson of the pendulum would shift in the same direction as the motion of the sun or opposite to the rotation of the earth in the experiments at columbia a pendulum of piano wire nine tyone ty one feet long supporting a heavy weight will bo swung in the dome of st pauls chapel built at the university last year i |