Talk:Adolf Sprung

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Fundamental work on the Coriolis force

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In 1879, Sprung showed the correct Coriolis-only experiment 72 years before the rotating parabola experiment of Stommel and Klebba (1951).^[1] This experiment, despite being ignored by the mainstream community, is the only one to show the Coriolis force alone and presented by several professors like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbOIfkdnac MeteoceanOnline (talk) 14:51, 18 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

↑ A. Persson, "The Coriolis effect: Four centuries of conflict between common sense and mathematics", History of Meteorology 2, 1–24 (2005), available at https://journal.meteohistory.org/index.php/hom/article/view/30

[1] A. Persson, "The Coriolis effect: Four centuries of conflict between common sense and mathematics", History of Meteorology 2, 1–24 (2005), available at https://journal.meteohistory.org/index.php/hom/article/view/30

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