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Scientific American, Vol. 87, No. 19 (November 1902) (1902)

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n Mu- Newton was the first to conceive the idea of experi- apparent displacement of the pendulum. The bob used mentally proving the diurnal movement of the earth. seum of Natural History, was the antiquity of man. was not that of Foucault, but that of the pendulum One of the exhibits was the… … Pleistocene deposits of Kansas, which ple apparatus. A small pendulum is THE SKULL OF THE "LANSING MAN." include extinct species of the horse, bi- mounted in a frame of wood, supported Variously estimated at from 8,000 to 30,000 years old. by a table. While the pendulum is os- son, mammoth and…

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