Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Foucault pendulum: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Photos

Foucault pendulum with a gold sphere suspended above a circular numbered ring, set on a patterned floor in the Pantheon, Paris, with classical statues and columns behind.
See All Images →

Related Topics and References

Topics

Key People

Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault
French physicist