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 Munro, John
With his large Nicol prisms he in the first place repeated and explained the experiments of Foucault and Fizeau, and subsequently enriched the subject by very beautiful additions of his own.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John
Professor Michelson has undertaken some new researches by a method which is a combination of the principle of the toothed wheel of Fizeau with the revolving mirror of Foucault.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
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 Mach, Ernst
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