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    This is a list of Foucault pendulums in the world: Wikimedia Commons has media related to Foucault pendulums. Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna St. Ruprecht...
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    demonstrate the Earth's rotation. Foucault pendulums today are popular displays in science museums and universities. Foucault was inspired by observing a thin...
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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...
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    pendulums Blackburn pendulum Conical pendulum Cycloidal pendulum Double pendulum Double inverted pendulum Doubochinski's pendulum Foucault pendulum Furuta...
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    a pendulum reminiscent of a Foucault pendulums, but ironically it is not a real Foucault pendulum as it doesn't precess. Instead, once the pendulum is...
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    resources in Brazilians, some with thousands of samples. Paleorrota Geopark List of Foucault pendulums "Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS - Porto...
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    Ukrainian team, two independent short ball-borne pendulums for a Romanian team and a long Foucault pendulum for the third team. All three teams detected unexplained...
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    Musée des Arts et Métiers (category Buildings and structures in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris)
    an original version of the Foucault pendulum, the original model of Liberty Enlightening the World (commonly known as the Statue of Liberty) by Frédéric...
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    Panthéon (category Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris)
    of its character to Bramante's Tempietto. In 1851, Léon Foucault conducted a demonstration of diurnal motion at the Panthéon by suspending a pendulum...
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    History of Religion and Atheism, the dove sculpture was removed, and replaced by a Foucault pendulum. On 12 April 1931, the first public demonstration of the...
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    statues of Saints The nave The winter-time facade The organs Every Thursday inside the Church, demonstrations are held of the longest Foucault pendulum in...
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  • Wronskian Loewy decomposition Pendulum Inverted pendulum Double pendulum Foucault pendulum Spherical pendulum Kinematics Equation of motion Dynamics (mechanics)...
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  • first name given), character in Foucault's Pendulum, 1988 novel by Umberto Eco Casaubon, the name of a character in several of Mary Gentle's works This page...
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    and Hamsa. A foucault pendulum is suspended from the ceiling of the central foyer. This pendulum, created by the National Council of Science Museums...
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  • Doppler effect. Foucault pendulum (1851): Léon Foucault's creates a pendulum to demonstrate the Coriolis effect and the rotation of the Earth. Michelson–Morley...
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  • Flinders bar – Matthew Flinders Foley catheter – Frederic Foley Foucault pendulum – Léon Foucault Francis turbine – James B. Francis Franklin stove – Benjamin...
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  • protagonist of the prequel The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence Jacopo Belbo, one of the main characters of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto...
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    Gyroscope (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
    in electronic devices. It takes the idea of the Foucault pendulum and uses a vibrating element. This kind of gyroscope was first used in military applications...
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  • electrostatic generator Shooting a candle through a plank Foucault pendulum — demonstrates the rotation of Earth Ammonia fountain — introduces concepts like solubility...
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    author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose. Paul Edwards (1923–2004): Austrian-American moral philosopher and editor of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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  • December 24, 2016. "St. John's College Foucault Pendulum". Thucydides.sjca.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2016. "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: August...
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    Umberto Eco (category Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum...
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  • direct suction tracheotomy tube Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867)...
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  • Hannay angle (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    canonical variables of the Hamiltonian, and ω {\displaystyle \omega } is the symplectic Hamiltonian 2-form. The Foucault pendulum is an example from classical...
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    computer in the novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988) Arius, from William T Quick's novels Dreams of Flesh and Sand, Dreams of Gods and Men, and...
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  • by Jean Peltier. Foucault pendulum by Léon Foucault (who also developed and named the Gyroscope) in February 1851 in the Meridian of the Paris Observatory...
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    Culler Hall (Miami University) (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
    for the project. The center of the U-shaped structure had an impressive glass front entrance showing off the Foucault Pendulum within. Culler Hall was renovated...
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  • (1988; English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989) L'isola del giorno prima (1994; English translation: The Island of the Day Before, 1995) Baudolino...
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    Salmoiraghi refracting telescope, and a Foucault pendulum. The Telecommunication section is dedicated to all forms of modern-era communication from telegraph...
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  • Contact (novel) (category Books critical of religion)
    religious skeptic, Ellie tries to convince Joss of her faith in science by standing near a heavy Foucault pendulum and trusting that its amplitude will not increase...
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