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Show Proof Thai the garth Revolves. Ad application to repeat In the Pan-thoon Pan-thoon the pendulum experiments tried by Leon Koucault In 1K51 haa been made by tha Astronomical Boclety of France. A pendulum waa awung from tha dome and awung to and fro, leaving leav-ing a little notch In a aand rldgo built In a circle on the floor of the church. The notch made by each successive swing waa a little distance away from the preceding notch, and at the end of twenty-four hours they had gone completely com-pletely around the circle. Tbla proved that tho earth had revolved. |