Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

The Foucault pendulum ( /fuːˈkoʊ/ foo-KOH), or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. While it had long been known that the Earth rotated, the introduction of the Foucault pendulum in 1851 was the first simple proof of the rotation in an easy-to-see experiment. Today, Foucault pendulums are popular displays in science museums and universities.(Wikipedia)
Italian author/ writer Umberto Eco has written a novel with the title Foucault's pendulum.
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the translation into English by William Weaver appeared a year later.
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory, so many that critic and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that it needed an index. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Although some believe it refers to the philosopher Michel Foucault[2] noting Eco's friendship with the French philosopher, the author "specifically rejects any intentional reference to Michel Foucault" — and this is regarded as one of his subtle literary jokes.
Source: Wikipedia

[alicehunter]

THANK YOU MR. LEON FAUCAULT.... THE RESEARCHER IS SO IMPORTANT.

[etiquettefiend]

"There are four kinds of people: cretin, fool, moron, and lunatic." Interesting writer with wit relief humor and crazy philosophy.

[dustylense]

exactly. The whole thing is connected with a wire, to a cross beam, to a ceiling, to a building, to a foundation. But somehow, MAGICALLY, the earth is able to defy the wire, cross beam, ceiling, building, foundation and spin underneath all that anchoring.

[jojolafrite]

I don't see why you wrote Umberto Eco's name on the title about this video about the pendulum.

[leafar]

I don't understand how it works, it's not supposed that the pendulum should also rotate as well as the earth?

[alanoneill]

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

It was between 1:50 and 2:00 pm when this video was recorded. o/