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Gyroscope: a device invented in 1852 by the French experimental physicist Leon Foucault (1819-1868) as part of a two-pronged investigation of the rotation of the earth.
The entire construction looks like a gyroscope lying on its side. As this is the arrangement adopted by most quadrant systems of house division, at all latitudes between the Equator and 66N, we must question procedures which, at 67N and beyond, ...
If Pars in 1 often has to do pioneer's work, Pars in 5 will frequently have to function as centrifuge or gyroscope. What Leo is doing with great ambition, Pars in 5 will do with a heavy heart.
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