╰☆☆ ғʀᴇɴᴄʜ ᴛʜᴇᴏʀʏ : ᴘᴇɴᴅᴜʟᴇ ᴅᴇ ғᴏᴜᴄᴀᴜʟᴛ ☆☆╮ Michel Foucault passed away 40 years ago.
Foucault was once run over by a car in Paris (he recovered), leading to a long-running joke that one of the world’s leading figures in semiotics- the study of signs and symbols in communication - apparently failed to read a street sign correctly. (The joke never reveals whether this really was a matter of signage, and if so whether it was Foucault or the driver who failed to read it. As often happens, the facts themselves may have got in the way of the joke, so were never communicated as part of it, which is itself an interesting aspect of the study of signs and signifiers.)
The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, the original one installed at Panthéon in 1851 was moved to the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and another one installed in 1902, reinstalled in the Musée des Arts et Métiers, the cable broke in 2010, and an exact copy of the original pendula has been operational since 1995 in the Panthéon in Paris. I was there a couple of years ago, and using my Blackberry I recorded the pendulum there, saved this video somewhere in my digital metaverse.
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2wJe suis désolé Stéphane mais je me dois d'apporter quelques corrections. Le pendule de Foucault n'est pas l'œuvre de Michel mais de Jean-Pierre Foucault. Il l'a inventé avant de commencer sa carrière d'animateur chez RMC (1966) et Galilée s'est inspiré de son travail pour prouver que la terre était plate (1978). Sources : - un mec sur YouTube avec 100k followers - ChatGPT