Terrestrial Globe Quotes by Leon Foucault

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• The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Unknown Author
• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity… — Eduard Suess
• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault
• The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal;… — Nicolaus Copernicus
• It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves,… — Joseph Wood Krutch
• When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher
• The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the… — John Quincy Adams
• The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense… — Jules Verne

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