I loved the Pantheon because it celebrates reason and science using the emotional tools that are typically used for religion. Watching Foucalt’s pendulum swing in the great dome is as meditive as a litany, but it stimulates creative thought instead of stifling it.
Seeing Voltaire’s crypt was the best part.
After we finished looking inside we sat on the steps in the sun and enjoyed the view of the Eiffel Tower and the students playing ball in the square.
-B
Categories: in Paris
Tagged: Eiffel Tower, Foucalt, Pantheon, voltaire
Today we visited the Pantheon which is right near our apartment. We walked up there this morning to see the oldest pendulum and just look inside. The top part (the dome) was closed until May but we still got to see the Crypt, where a lot of famous people are buried. The Pantheon was interesting but not nearly as cool as some of the other places we’ve been.
Categories: in Paris
Tagged: Pantheon
