Exhibitions /SPACE - in classical physic
This room explains the 'classical' idea of space from antiquity to the present day, a passive container of all things.
Contemporary physics firmly denies this idea, matured since antiquity and maintained up to the present day.
The first section of the tour deals with the origin of the measurement units of space, which were adopted and handed down essentially 'intact' from the earliest antiquity until the end of the 18th century.
Isaac Newton
The first section of the tour deals with the origin of the measurement units of space, which were adopted and handed down essentially 'intact' from the earliest antiquity until the end of the 18th century.
In the centre of the room you will find a large exhibit reproducing the rotating bucket experiment. With this experiment, Newton demonstrated that space is a 'thing' that really exists and is independent of the objects it contains.
The last part of the hall is dedicated to the history of the metre, the unit for measuring space that we use today. An extraordinary history that became entwined with the dramatic events of the French Revolution.
