Come See the Earth Turn by Lori Mortensen
Learn how Léon Foucault, a sickly child and poor student, grew up to design a simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that the Earth rotates.
Random House, 2010, 32 p., $17.99, ages 7–9
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