Foucault's Pendulum
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Foucault's Pendulum 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.
First edition (Italian)
The eponymous Foucault pendulum at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
Léon Foucault
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, di
Foucault's Pendulum
…and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that it needed an index. The pendulum of the title refers to an actual pendulum designed by French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate Earth's rotation, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Some believe that it refers to Michel Foucault, given the author's…
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Grave of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault in Montmartre Cemetery