"The Island of the Day Before The Island of the Day Before () is a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th-century during the historical search for the secret of longitude. The central character is Roberto della Griva, an Italian nobleman stranded on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean, and his slowly decaying mental state, in a backdrop of Baroque-era science, metaphysics, and cosmology. Roberto della Griva, a 17th-century Italian nobleman, is the sole survivor of a shipwreck during a fierce storm. He finds himself washed up on an abandoned ship in a harbour through"
"""Foucault's Pendulum"" (1988), three under-employed editors who work for a minor publishing house decide to amuse themselves by inventing a conspiracy theory. Their conspiracy, which they call ""The Plan"", is about an immense and intricate plot to take over the world by a secret order descended from the Knights Templar. As the game goes on, the three slowly become obsessed with the details of this plan. The game turns dangerous when outsiders learn of The Plan, and believe that the men have really discovered the secret to regaining the lost treasure of the Templars. ""The Island of the Day Before"""
"in ""Faith In Fakes"", reminiscent of the episode in the novel. He also describes French ethnologist Roger Bastide who bears a resemblance to the character of Agliè. Eco's novel was also a direct inspiration on Charles Cecil during the development of Revolution Software's highly successful point and click adventure game """", in which an American tourist and a French journalist must thwart a conspiracy by a shadowy cabal who model themselves on the Knights Templar. Foucault's Pendulum Foucault's Pendulum (original title: ""Il pendolo di Foucault"" ) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published"
"Léon Foucault Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (; 18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope. Foucault was the son of a publisher in Paris, where he was born on 18 September 1819. After an education received chiefly at home, he studied medicine, which he abandoned in favour of physics due to a blood phobia. He first directed his"
"to 2008, he edited Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an NEH Fellow twice, and in 2006-2007 he was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A native of Chicago, he was educated at Pomona College in California, and at Brandeis University, where he received a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas in 1976. James Miller (academic) James Miller (born 1947) is an American writer and academic. He is known for writing about Michel Foucault, philosophy"
"Catholicism that he previously abandoned. Foucault died of what was probably a rapidly developing case of multiple sclerosis on 11 February 1868 in Paris and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery. The asteroid 5668 Foucault was named for him. His is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Collected Works: Léon Foucault Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (; 18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light,"
"Wilson's ""The Illuminatus! Trilogy"" to Umberto Eco's ""Foucault's Pendulum"""". ""The Illuminatus! Trilogy"" was written 13 years before ""Foucault's Pendulum"". George Johnson wrote on the similarity of the two books that ""both works were written tongue in cheek, with a high sense of irony."" Both books are divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. ""Foucault's Pendulum"" also bears a number of similarities to Eco's own experiences and writing. The character of Belbo was brought up in the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. Eco refers to his own visit to a Candomblé ceremony in Brazil in an article compiled"
"Propeller Island Propeller Island () (also published as The Floating Island, or The Pearl of the Pacific, and as The Self-Propelled Island) is a science fiction novel by French author Jules Verne (1828–1905). It was first published in 1895 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It relates the adventures of a French string quartet in Milliard City, a city on a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited entirely by millionaires. A French string quartet (Sébastien Zorn, Frascolin, Yvernes and Pinchinat), traveling from San Francisco to their next engagement in San Diego, is diverted to Standard Island. Standard Island is"
"John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired ""The Magus"", an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s ""hippy"" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where"
"Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (; ; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel ""Il nome della rosa"" (""The Name of the Rose""), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including ""Il pendolo di Foucault"" (""Foucault's Pendulum"") and ""L'isola del giorno prima"" (""The Island of the Day Before""). His novel ""Il cimitero di Praga"" (""The Prague Cemetery""), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote"
"a sensitive relationship. John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired ""The Magus"", an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s ""hippy"" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme"
"model of ""Liberty Enlightening the World"" (commonly known as the Statue of Liberty) by Auguste Bartholdi, some of the first planes (Clément Ader's Avion III, Louis Blériot's Blériot XI...), and Blaise Pascal's Pascaline (the first mechanical calculator). The museum presents seven different collections : Scientific Instruments, Materials, Energy, Mechanics, Construction, Communication, Transportation. In the former church of St-Martin-des-Champs Priory are displayed cars, planes, the Foucault Pendulum and some other monumental objects. The museum appears in literature as the scene of the climax of the novel ""Foucault's Pendulum"" by Umberto Eco. The museum can be accessed by the Paris Métro station"
"Foucault in 1851, which consisted of a lead-filled brass sphere suspended from the top of the Panthéon in Paris. Because of the Earth's rotation under the swinging pendulum, the pendulum's plane of oscillation appears to rotate at a rate depending on latitude. At the latitude of Paris the predicted and observed shift was about clockwise per hour. Foucault pendulums now swing in museums around the world. Earth's rotation period relative to the Sun (solar noon to solar noon) is its ""true solar day"" or ""apparent solar day"". It depends on the Earth's orbital motion and is thus affected by changes"
"Christian Filostrat Christian Filostrat (born 1945, in Martinique, FWI) is an American diplomat, recipient of the 1994 Presidential Award and a writer, author of ""Variations on Unjust Times"", ""The Gospel of Thomas"" , ""Jerome's Pillows "" . ""The Beggars’ Pursuit"" is a novel about relations between the United States and Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko. "" The Last Day of Frantz Fanon "" is based on discussions Filostrat held with Fanon’s wife, Josie Fanon. The book concludes with an interview about her husband. A Négritude specialist, Filostrat is a researcher in the field of politics and literature in the French-speaking Caribbean"
"mainly since the publication of Gershom Scholem’s researches. In Myla Goldberg's novel ""Bee Season"", eleven-year-old Eliza Naumann, after a surprising success in her Spelling Bee, is introduced to the writings and techniques of Abraham Abulafia by her rabbi father, in an effort to help her 'see' the spellings. A central plot device in Umberto Eco's novel ""Foucault's Pendulum"" is a personal computer named Abulafia. In Richard Zimler's international bestseller, ""The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon"", the narrator and his spiritual mentor (his uncle) make it clear that they follow the practices of Abraham Abulafia. Abraham Abulafia Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia ()"
"by the Clarendon Press. It forms the most valuable record we possess of the daily life of a scholar, or man of letters, of the 16th century. He also corresponded with the translators of the King James Version of the Bible and helped resolve issues in the translation. The scholars in ""Foucault's Pendulum"" by Umberto Eco and ""Middlemarch"" by George Eliot are named Casaubon. Mary Gentle named a character in her novels ""Rats and Gargoyles and the Architecture of Desire"" Casaubon, as an homage to Isaac Casaubon. Ross King makes mention of Casaubon in his novel ""Ex-Libris"" where he is"
"The Order of Things The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences () is a 1966 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. It was translated into English and published by Pantheon Books in 1970. (Foucault had preferred ""L'Ordre des Choses"" for the original French title, but changed the title because it had been used by two structuralist works published immediately prior to Foucault's). Foucault endeavours to ""excavate"" the origins of the human sciences, which have their root in ""life, labour, and language"", that is: biology, economics, and linguistics. The book opens with an extended discussion of Diego"
"a paradigm. The Order of Things The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences () is a 1966 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. It was translated into English and published by Pantheon Books in 1970. (Foucault had preferred ""L'Ordre des Choses"" for the original French title, but changed the title because it had been used by two structuralist works published immediately prior to Foucault's). Foucault endeavours to ""excavate"" the origins of the human sciences, which have their root in ""life, labour, and language"", that is: biology, economics, and linguistics. The book opens with an extended discussion"
"Writing and Difference Writing and Difference () is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, collecting some of the early lectures and essays that established his international fame. It was published in 1967 alongside ""Of Grammatology"" and ""Speech and Phenomena"". The collection contains the essay ""Cogito and the History of Madness"", a critique of Michel Foucault. It was first given as a lecture on March 4, 1963, at a conference at the ""Collège philosophique"", which Foucault attended, and caused a rift between the two, possibly prompting Foucault to write ""The Order of Things"" (1966) and ""The Archaeology of Knowledge"" (1969)."
"Rupert Furneaux Rupert Kenneth Furneaux (June 29, 1908 - 1981) was a British author who wrote many books on mysteries, murder trials and true crime. Rupert Furneaux was educated at Eastbourne College. He spent seven years investigating the mystery of Oak Island and published his conclusions in 1972. His book on the eruption of Krakatoa received a favourable review from Eric Shipton. Furneaux researched cases of true crime and his books on criminology were well received by academics. His research on Guenther Podola was described as a ""fascinating reading and is a valuable addition to the studies of those criminal"
"The Passion of Michel Foucault The Passion of Michel Foucault is a biography of the French philosopher Michel Foucault authored by the American philosopher James Miller. It was first published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 1993. Within the book, Miller made the claim that Foucault's experiences in the gay sadomasochism community during the time he taught at Berkeley directly influenced his political and philosophical works. Miller's ideas have been rebuked by certain Foucault scholars as being either simply misdirected, a sordid reading of his life and works, or as a politically motivated, intentional misreading. Writing for"
"for the developers of ""Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri"". The Jesus Incident The Jesus Incident (1979) is the second science fiction novel set in the by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. It is a sequel to """" (1965), and has two sequels: ""The Lazarus Effect"" (1983) and ""The Ascension Factor"" (1988). The book takes place at an indeterminate time following the events in ""Destination: Void"". At the end of ""Destination: Void"" the crew of the ship had succeeded in creating an artificial consciousness. The new conscious being, now known as 'Ship', gains a level of awareness that"
"collection, but was moved to the Panthéon in 1995 during museum renovation. It was later reinstalled in the Musée des Arts et Métiers. On 6 April 2010, the cable suspending the original pendulum bob snapped causing irreparable damage to the pendulum and to the marble flooring of the museum. The novel ""Foucault's Pendulum"" by Umberto Eco deals greatly with this establishment, as the Foucault pendulum hung in the museum plays a great role in the storyline. The novel was published in 1989 prior to the pendulum being moved back to the Panthéon during museum reconstruction. The Conservatoire National des Arts"
"The Pillars of Hercules (book) The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean is a travelogue written by the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, first published 1995. It concerns a year-and-a-half long expedition around the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea from one of Hercules' Pillars (Gibraltar) to the other (Ceuta) undertaken during 1993-94. Theroux recounts his experiences from the many diverse countries that border the shores of the sea, including the war-torn Yugoslavia (this was shortly before the break-up of the former republic), the troubled Levant and the recently liberated Albania. The Pillars of Hercules consists"
"Alamut, Bavarian Illuminati, Bogomils, Cabalists, Candomblé, Cathars, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elders of Zion, Freemasons, Gnostics, Jesuits, Knights Templar, Opus Dei, Ordo Templi Orientis, Panta Rei and the Rosicrucians. ""Foucault's Pendulum"" (1988) has been called ""the thinking man's ""Da Vinci Code"""". The parchment that sparks the Plan plays a role which is similar to the parchments in the Rennes-le-Château story in Brown's novel and in ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"" (1982), from which Brown drew inspiration. Eco's novel predated the ""Da Vinci"" phenomenon by more than a decade, but both novels are concerned with the"
"Richard Bach Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some of the 1970s biggest-sellers, including ""Jonathan Livingston Seagull"" (1970) and ""Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah"" (1977). Bach has written numerous works of fiction, and also non-fiction flight-related titles. Most of Bach's books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy. Bach's books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. Bach is noted for his love of aviation and for his books related to"
"Joseph Tanke Joseph Tanke (Ph.D., Boston College; born 1978) is an American philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His work focuses on Continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics, art theory, and historical ontology. Tanke is known for his analysis of major figures in the French philosophical tradition, such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. His book Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity is one of the first systematic presentations of Michel Foucault's writings on visual art. Tanke is the first scholar to publish a comprehensive critical introduction to the thought"
"Night Land"", the ""Earth-Current"", a powerful telluric current, is the source of power for the Last Redoubt, the arcology home of man after the Sun has died. Hodgson's Earth-Current is a spiritual force as well as an electrical one, warding off the monsters of the Night Lands. The main plot of the novel ""Foucault's Pendulum"" by Umberto Eco revolves around search for the ""Umbilicus Mundi"" (Latin: ""The Navel of the World""), the mystic ""Center of The Earth"" which is supposed to be a certain point from where a person could control the energies and shapes of the Earth, thus reforming"
"Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault (), was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge , and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels, preferring to present his thought as a critical history of modernity. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, and critical theory. Activist groups"
"absurdity.' The Book of Illusions The Book of Illusions is a novel by American writer Paul Auster, published in 2002. It was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2004. Set in the late 1980s, the story is written from the perspective of David Zimmer, a university professor who, after losing his wife and children in a plane crash, falls into a routine of depression and isolation. After seeing one of the silent comedies of Hector Mann, an actor missing since the 1920s, he decides to occupy himself by watching all of Mann's films and writing a book"
"the prejudice against Jews and homosexuals within its ranks. After spending some time working in Poland, then governed as a socialist state by the Polish United Workers' Party, he became further disillusioned with communist ideology. As a result, in the early 1960s he was considered to be ""violently anticommunist"" by some of his detractors, even though he was involved in leftist campaigns along with most of his students and colleagues. In addition to his philosophical work, Foucault also wrote on literature. ""Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel"" was published in 1963, and translated into English in 1986."
"Foucault pendulum The Foucault pendulum ( ; ) or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault and conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. The pendulum was introduced in 1851 and was the first experiment to give simple, direct evidence of the earth's rotation. Today, Foucault pendulums are popular displays in science museums and universities. The first public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum took place in February 1851 in the Meridian of the Paris Observatory. A few weeks later, Foucault made his most famous pendulum when he suspended a 28-kg brass-coated lead bob"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."