- In electromagnetism, an eddy
current (also
called Foucault's current) is a loop of
electric current induced within conductors by a
changing magnetic field...
-
speed of light,
discovered eddy
currents, and is
credited with
naming the gyroscope. The son of a publisher,
Foucault was born in
Paris on 18 September...
- Paul-Michel
Foucault (UK: /ˈfuːkoʊ/, US: /fuːˈkoʊ/; French: [pɔl miʃɛl ****o]; 15
October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a
French philosopher,
historian of ideas...
- The
Foucault pendulum or
Foucault's pendulum is a
simple device named after French physicist Léon
Foucault,
conceived as an
experiment to
demonstrate the...
-
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il
pendolo di
Foucault [il ˈpɛndolo di fuˈko]) is a
novel by
Italian writer and
philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first...
-
Heterotopia is a
concept elaborated by
philosopher Michel Foucault to
describe certain cultural,
institutional and
discursive spaces that are
somehow "other":...
-
question toward the
conditions of
their possibility (particularly in
Michel Foucault's genealogies). It has been
developed as a
continuation of the
works of...
-
elusive as long as both
disciplines use
their current research methods.
Modern power,
according to
Foucault's analysis,
becomes encoded into
social practices...
- into fiction. In
Umberto Eco's
Foucault's Pendulum, the
search for a
mystic center of the
Earth connects to
telluric currents,
while Thomas Pynchon's Mason...
- were
first observed by François
Arago in 1824, but
French physicist Léon
Foucault is
credited with
discovering them in 1855. ECT
began largely as a result...
