Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 385
room (in the northern hemisphere) is nearerto the axis of the earth than is its southern edge, and there-fore is carried more slowly eastward by the earths rotation.Hence the floor must skew around continually, like a post-age-stamp gummed upon a whirling globe anywhere except atthe globes equator.… … Fig. 123. Explanation of the FoucaultPendulum Experiment.
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