Demonstration - Watching the Earth Turn

Name: Démonstration - Voir tourner la Terre
Start: 2022-09-17T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:20:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Arts et Métiers

The pendulum of Foucault

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

©Musée des Arts et Métiers-Cnm / P. Hurlin

«You are invited to come and see the Earth turn»: first realized in 1851, the demonstration of the Foucault pendulum oscillates between scientific reality and «magic».

Types d'événement

Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire

Thème 2022

Aucune sélection

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

À propos du lieu

Musée des Arts et Métiers

60 rue Réaumur 75003 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The permanent exhibition of the Museum of Arts and Crafts is organized into seven thematic collections, which themselves are subdivided into four chronological periods (before 1750, 1750-1850, 1850-1950, after 1950): scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, energy, mechanical and transport. Complementary presentations emphasize particular points: the laboratory of Lavoisier, the theatre of automata. In the old church is presented, among other things, the experience of the rotation of the earth by means of the pendulum of Leon Foucault.