It's called a Foucault Pendulum. They have a beautiful one at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, to show that the Earth rotates. Each time my family goes to the museum we make it ...

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“That was when I saw the Pendulum. “The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty. “I knew–but anyone could have sensed it in ...

So I've been reading Foucault's Pendulum and I've come up with a couple questions.<BR><BR>1. Belbo doesn't think of himself as good enough to be an author. Yet he is surrounding himself with texts ...

I found Foucault's Pendulum to be uber meh. Let's see how many obscure things I can cram into one story..... It was a chore to read it.

In 1851, Leon Foucault demonstrated the Earth’s rotation to the world with a magnificent pendulum in the Paris Pantheon. In 2010, that pendulum crashed to the Musée des Arts et Métiers’ marble floor.