Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
Leon FoucaultAbout author
- Author's profession: Inventor
- Nationality: french
- Born: September 18, 1819
- Died: February 11, 1868
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