Google's latest doodle celebrates the birthday of French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault who invented of a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the earth. The interactive doodle is based on ...

Today, Google’s homepage honours French physicist Léon Foucault on what would have been his 194th birthday with an interactive animation of the Foucault pendulum in action. Born 18 September 1819 in ...

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.

The early months of 1851 were indeed important as everyone living on Earth got to know the science behind Earth’s rotation. French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault created an uproar with his ...

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 ...