Léon Foucault is not a widely recognized figure like his namesake, Jean-Bernard Léon Foucault, who was a famous French physicist known for his work in the 19th century. Léon Foucault is best known for his demonstration of the rotation of the Earth using the Foucault pendulum, a simple device that elegantly shows the Earth's rotation relative to the plane of the pendulum's swing.
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