Foucault pendulums are a popular feature in science museums around the world. This one hangs out in the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Photo: sylvar/Flickr __1851: __ Léon ...

On a site where people as illustrious as Geneviève the patron saint of Paris, Victor Hugo, Voltaire and Rousseau are buried, one can expect the unexpected, including some ghosts. So while the ...

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.

Today’s Google logo is an interactive image of Foucault’s Pendulum, a device created by French physicist Léon Foucault who was born on this date 194 years ago in Paris, France. The Foucault Pendulum ...

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Matthew and I dropped by the Pantheon this morning so he could see Foucault’s pendulum and pay his respects at the tombs of Pierre and Marie Curie. Afterward, we walked over to the next-door church of ...

Today marks the 194th birthday of Léon Foucault, the French physicist who used a pendulum to confirm the rotation of the Earth. Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute. The interactive doodle is based on ...