Foucault Pendulum

Foucault Pendulum is a work of art in Town of Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire. Foucault Pendulum is situated nearby to the university building Shattuck Observatory, as well as near the community center Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Green and Shattuck Observatory.

The Green

Park

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The Green is a grass-covered field and common space at the center of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The Green is situated 980 feet southwest of Foucault Pendulum.

Shattuck Observatory

University building

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Shattuck Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The observatory's most notable director was Edwin Brant Frost, who went on to be the director of the Yerkes Observatory.

Hood Museum of Art

Museum

Photo: Daderot, CC0.

The Hood Museum of Art is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth was in 1772, making the collection among the oldest and largest, at about 65,000 objects, of any college or university museum in the United States. Hood Museum of Art is situated 1,400 feet south of Foucault Pendulum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hanover and Norwich.

Hanover

Photo: Kane5187, Public domain.

Hanover is a college town in west central New Hampshire across the Connecticut River from Norwich, Vermont. It is home to Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, whose historic campus dominates the center of the town.

Norwich

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Norwich is a city of 3,600 people in eastern Vermont across the Connecticut River from Hanover, New Hampshire. It is commuter town for nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River, and is home to some of the state of Vermont's wealthiest residents.

Norwich Village Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Norwich Village Historic District encompasses the compact village center of Norwich, Vermont. The village was developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century, benefiting in importance from the 1820 founding of what is now Norwich University.

Foucault Pendulum

Type: Work of art
Category: tourism
Location: Town of Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.70557° or 43° 42′ 20″ north

Longitude

-72.28654° or 72° 17′ 12″ west

Open location code

87M9PP47+69

OpenStreetMap ID

node 416658331

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

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