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PANTHEON
Panorama made from 6 single shots.

Camera: Canon EOS 400D + Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 DC EX HSM
Exif: 10mm f/4 1/15-40sec ISO-400 Manual sRGB
Date: 24/06/2010 16:55h
Site: Panthéon, Paris, FRANCE

The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve, but after many changes now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.

In 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment conducted in the Panthéon, by constructing a 67 meter Foucault pendulum beneath the central dome. The Foucault pendulum is a tall pendulum free to oscillate in any vertical plane. The direction along which the pendulum swings rotates with time because of Earth's daily rotation. This is because the plane of the pendulum's swing, like a gyroscope, tends to keep a fixed direction in space, while the Earth rotates under it. The first public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum took place in February 1851 in the Meridian Room of the Paris Observatory. A few weeks later, Foucault made his most famous pendulum when he suspended a 28 kg bob with a 67 metre wire from the dome of the Panthéon, Paris. The plane of the pendulum's swing rotated clockwise 11° per hour, making a full circle in 32.7 hours.

Thanks very much for viewing and reading.

To my loved Debbie.

Description
PANTHEON
Panorama made from 6 single shots.

Camera: Canon EOS 400D + Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 DC EX HSM
Exif: 10mm f/4 1/15-40sec ISO-400 Manual sRGB
Date: 24/06/2010 16:55h
Site: Panthéon, Paris, FRANCE

The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve, but after many changes now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.

In 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment conducted in the Panthéon, by constructing a 67 meter Foucault pendulum beneath the central dome. The Foucault pendulum is a tall pendulum free to oscillate in any vertical plane. The direction along which the pendulum swings rotates with time because of Earth's daily rotation. This is because the plane of the pendulum's swing, like a gyroscope, tends to keep a fixed direction in space, while the Earth rotates under it. The first public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum took place in February 1851 in the Meridian Room of the Paris Observatory. A few weeks later, Foucault made his most famous pendulum when he suspended a 28 kg bob with a 67 metre wire from the dome of the Panthéon, Paris. The plane of the pendulum's swing rotated clockwise 11° per hour, making a full circle in 32.7 hours.

Thanks very much for viewing and reading.

To my loved Debbie.