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, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...
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 ...
When visitors walk into the Pantheon in Rome and encounter its colossal dome, they may experience the same theatricality as its guests nearly 2,000 years ago. “Anyone who steps inside the Pantheon ...
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