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LIKE THE GREAT thinkers he seeks to follow--Hegel, Nietzche, Marx--Michel Foucault stands ambiguously poised between disciplines. He was trained in philosophy and psychology; his earliest books were on literature and history. He admits, in The Archaeology of Knowledge, that he's acutely embarrassed by the question of whether this latest work is history or philosophy, and finally decides that it is neither. In the last analysis. Foucault would probably assert that he stands where it is necessary in order to radically alter the shape of our knowledge; that he works not just in the gaps between areas...
...matter of fact, this technique is precisely the same as that used in testing optical surfaces. Foucault, the famous physicist, who invented the method, was undoubtedly the first person to see a "breeze," nearly 100 years ago. Thousands of telescope makers, both amateur and professional, have watched warm air currents rising from the hand...
...seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last week, in the idle elevator shaft, installed and ready to operate was a 120-foot Foucault pendulum, the longest in existence...
French Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-68) installed the first Foucault pendulum in Paris's Pantheon in 1851. That one, since dismantled, was 200 feet long. Foucault's idea was to prove the rotation of Earth on its axis. A pendulum which is swinging freely in space keeps to the same line, whereas compass directions beneath the pendulum are constantly changing as the earth rotates. This apparent shift was duly performed by the pendulum of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. Such demonstrations always make a great impression on students of elementary physics...
Using methods patterned after the famous experiments of Foucault and Michelson, N. Henry Black '96, assistant professor of Physics, has been determining the speed of light by means of apparatus constructed under his direction in the Physics department. Professor Black pointed out that, in spite of its enormous size, the speed of light is known with greater accuracy than almost any other physical constant and that it is important in the study of many other types of radiation besides optics...