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Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault [il ˈpɛndolo di fuˈko]) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988, with an English translation by William Weaver being published a year later. [1] The book is divided into segments represented by the ten Sefiroth.
The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change ...
In this book, Eco browses through the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Italo Calvino, Marcel Proust. He analyses Gérard de Nerval 's Sylvie , Homer 's Odyssey , Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy , The Three Musketeers , and some own works, such as The Name of the Rose , and Foucault's Pendulum .
The oldest Foucault Pendulum in Romania is located in pavilion B of the University of Oradea. It was installed in 1964 by Prof. Coriolan Rus, the then dean of the Faculty of Mathematics - Physics. (length: 14m; weight: 60 kg) "Vasile Alecsandri" National College in Galați (length: 9,92m; weight: 8 kg)
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (UK: / ʒ ɒ̃ ˈ b ɛər n ɑːr ˌ l eɪ ɒ̃ ˈ f uː k oʊ /, US: / ˌ ʒ ɒ̃ b ɛər ˈ n ɑːr l eɪ ˌ ɒ̃ f uː ˈ k oʊ /; French: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁnaʁ leɔ̃ fuko]; 18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation.
Foucault (surname) Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist. Three notable objects were named after him: Foucault (crater), a small lunar impact crater; 5668 Foucault, an asteroid; Foucault pendulum; Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher Foucault (Deleuze book) (1986), a book about the French philosopher by Gilles Deleuze
Foucault published two papers in 1852, one focused on astronomy with the weight free to move on all three axes (On a new experimental demonstration of the motion of the Earth, based on the fixity of the plane of rotation) [8] and the other on mechanics with the weight free to move on only two axes (On the orientation phenomena of rotating bodies driven by a fixed axis on the Earth's surface.
Jean Baudrillard's 1977 tract Oublier Foucault (trans. Forget Foucault) made Baudrillard instantly infamous within France, as it was a devastating critical analysis of Foucault's book the History of Sexuality—and of Foucault's entire oeuvre. In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was ...