The Earth Rotates in Three Axis

We build a big as pendulum, which a fantastic gentleman known the gentleman physicist, actually did himself. And he sets it off swinging backwards and forwards with a little brush on the bottom,. Goes through this little pad and leaves a trail as it goes. Now remember what we said, ok? We said that if yoe're in the northern hemisphere, then you're going to rotate clockwise. So what we do is let the pendulum take 24 hours to make a full rotation. The time that will take the pendulum to swing for as long as possible is divided by the sign of the latitude that you're on. That demonstrates that both the earth is a globe and that it so

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