Fizeau
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First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wheatstone's device of the revolving mirror was afterwards employed by Foucault and Fizeau to measure the velocity of light.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
Three of the most eminent natural philosophers, Galileo, an Italian, Römer, a Dane, and Fizeau, a Frenchman, have fairly shared its labors.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
An experiment suggested by Arago, and executed by Fizeau and Foucault, was conclusive against Newton's theory.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
The fundamental principle of the device was first suggested by the great French physicist Fizeau in 1868.
From The New Heavens by George Ellery Hale
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