[lit-ideas] Re: The Thermosophist
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:48:18 -0800
It's not clear what R. Paul's point is. But the Pantheon in Paris was
thus named after the Pantheon in Rome which _was_ perhaps originally
heathen. Or is Paul palying on the fact that *Foucault* is a
common-enough surname?
R. Paul seldom has a point. In this case his non-point was that in 1851
Léon Foucault exhibited his pendulum, a rather large one (no smirks,
please, we're skittish) in the Panthéon, in Paris. Foucault might well
be a common surname, but there are at least two famous ones, both
French, both, at least for a time, inhabitants of Paris. Léon's pendulum
demostrated, to the satisfaction of l'Académie française, the Earth's
diurnal motion around its praxis.
Here's a site for those interested in the recent Foucault.
http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-fou5.htm
Robert Paul
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