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The year 1851 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.
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The earliest scientifically useful photograph of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on July 28, 1851. This was the first occasion that an accurate photographic image of a solar eclipse was recorded.
The year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
August Ludwig Busch was a German astronomer who served as an assistant to Friedrich Bessel and from 1846, headed the Königsberg observatory.