Foucault's Pendulum - Anniversary!

[wytchcroft]

Jan 7 - 1851 marked the creation of Foucault's pendulum - verifying the rotation of the Earth.
A breakthrough of immense proportion impacting on science, religion and and philosophy to ths day.

you can read about it here.
or here.


Umberto Eco wrote a fine book titled after Foucault's Pendulum - highly recommended, measuring the movement through inner as much as outer space...



see also nicolaus copernicus

Comments

[stoshagownozad.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a nice date!
I love that novel by Mr. Eco... so really fine done thing!

[alek-morse.livejournal.com]

I read The Foucault's Pendulum - very interesting and some muddled thing. I remember that when I read this novel, I have an idea to organize The Culture Intellegence Service ;))) then I was a student of the faculty of philosophy.

However, I like his more The Name of Rose... It's more perfect novel (in a form, genre etc).

[avosurt.livejournal.com]

The same pendulum was in Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St.-Petersburg. Here a picture 30х years.



But now a pendulum there here this pigeon now hangs. The pendulum lays in storehouse of a cathedral. So historical registration of a cathedral is restored...

[alex-kraine.livejournal.com]

Well, Foucault's Pendulum is a simple and genial example of the Earth's planetary revolution, and secondly, being a conspiracy theories' fan, I love Eco's work very much.
The Name of the Rose is also great - especially, its background with theological dispute between the Franciscans and the Holy Mother Catholic Church representatives. I also like Baudolino. :)