Fear and Lathing in The Scientific Revolution
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The story of an accidental discovery on a lathe is a part of possibly the greatest revolution the world has ever seen.
Moonlight Hall Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Bruno statue has such a powerful message.
No one remembers the name of the inquisitor that had him killed. And sense he was a priest, he thankfully didn't pass on his genes either.
I would like to add that Léon Foucault is the father of modern telescope as he was the first to make metal deposition on glass (it was chemical déposition of silver) and designed the first efficient telescope for modern astronomy. The last big telescope he designed was the 1.2 meter telescope for the Paris Observatory and it's still working in the Haute Provence Observatory.
Now, that is some good info, Jean!!
when i made my reflecting telescope mirror i used the Foucault knife edge test to get the parabolic figure to withing 1/4 wavelength en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_knife-edge_test pretty amazing
@@davidburwell4218 - Amazing to think about all the great astronomers before Foucault's test ... trial-and-error method of figuring ... ha ha ha, fire hydrant, meet speculum ...
@@russcrawford3310 it was amazing to me that i could measure something that accurately with such a simple tool...just holding the blank would change the measurement from the differential heating from my hands...
@Kelvin Obviously, I'm biased because in french refractors are not telescopes they are "lunettes astronomiques", so the Newton telescope is the oldest type still in use and, in my mind, can't be modern..
You're not getting that many views right now, but I'm dropping links everywhere I can for your channel. Your content is fantastic, I'm amazed that it's free and you have no idea how much I appreciate that. Sharing knowledge and history like this is important and it's good that someone is doing this work. I'm watching every video you put out and I've enjoyed each and every one of them. I'm posting these videos on all the machinery related subreddits.
The second Part Blew up, I think its because the title was very catchy and interesting. Part 1 + 2 should be just as popular in my opinion.
I found this channel recommended on r/AvE (or r/Skookum?), maybe 2 weeks ago. Great stuff for sure!
It's hard to imagine just how much we have advanced in the last 100 years .. I keep asking "what Happened "
‘Fear and lathing” alone is brilliant enough
This is something that needs to be taught in schools everywhere ...it would open alot of eyes to the danger of religous views and what can happen when free opinion or new ideas expressed to those who are close minded pepole who refuse to listen to new ideas and discoveries.I wonder if the Churchers ever apologiesed to the world for killing and judging those during the witch hunts and the inquisition..andlater on found out they were wrong ???
I really like how your analysis takes into account what the socio political situation of the Catholic church was during Galileo's time. For some reason, that part of the story usually goes with some Church bashing, but you went with a deeper political insight instead. Strong kudos for this, esp. since this is an engineering channel. But about Copernicus' discovery, he wasn't really the first to come up with heliocentrism. Even in ancient greece some had the idea. So if the church hadn't slacked their homework, they wouldn't have needed another 200 years to finish it :)
I concur.
Your channel is going to be huge.
The Eardstapa Any day now :)
Define huge. Are we there yet? This is some of the best researched and well produced content on KZhead.
nah .. not enough big brain people on this planet
Mathematically speaking everyone's channel is going to be huge given that the media stays relevant, an amount of time and a content. Wait a few thousand years. You might be dead but your channel might not be.
Holy cow! This is easily one of the best KZhead channels, my 6 Y/o daughter showed me your channel when I asked her why she was listening to physics at her age! Keep these videos coming we love them!
I mean just the title makes the video worth it
Exactly!!
between you, Clickspring, Steampowered machine shop, Mike the Model T rebuilder of Tulsa, and wikipedia, I will never breathe fresh air again.
Seconded
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Hold up, a foot actuated refrigerator opener? Why isn't that a thing now?
I noticed that too! I think I'll 3D print one, I always have a hard time opening the ref after grocery.
because dogs, everhungry ones
The fridge we had in the 70's had a bottom freezer, with a foot pedal to open it. I can still here the tinny clank it would make when you shut it and the pedal slapped back to it's home position.
It was a common thing in 60's and 70's refrigerators, when I was a child our home had one that had it. Very useful feature, I wonder why today's models don't have it any more...
funny...that actuator could've been referred to as a "hold up"!!!
Love your videos, great knowledge bomb on a friday night. Thanks!!
I am so damn happy you continued with your channel. It’s my favorite as I work with some of the machines you speak of. I remember finding your channel years ago and I watched all your videos you had up at the time. I’m happy YT put you in my feed again. Also good to see so many other people love it.
Extremely informative and interesting. One of my favorite KZhead content creators. Thanks for enriching this rainy day.
Your videos are absolutely top notch. I love them. But I was a rabid fan of James Burke's Connections back in the day. Sadly, the people who really need to watch that series, and your excellent content... won't.
Me too. I have them all in my own Plex video library and I go back to them all the time.
I once had Burke's works on a "Hot" DVD, but it was lost. But I still have JZ, as good.
Bruno was not prosecuted for his Copernician view. he had many other heresies, couldn't handle authority, and was quite arrogant and boastful. very sad that he died but he wasn't a martyr for science.
Not believing in the divinity of Jesus would seem to have been a dangerous thought back in those times. Even Kepler and Galileo thought that Bruno was crazy.
it's a good thing we no longer kill arrogant, boastful heretics otherwise you'da been fucked m8.
It is still not okay to kill somebody because of their heresies but yeah
Thank you for your work, this is one of the best youtube channels I've found to date.
Holy crap man, how have I not found your channel until now?! Your presentation is amazing and I love the connections you make to history with all this. I'm a big fan of science and technology style videos but the way you wrap it all up in it's history makes it real in a sense that I'm still having my mind blown about lol. Thanks for your work man, this is great!
Most elegant and sophisticated video I've ever seen on KZhead especially coming from a wood channel!!
I saw a clever way to keep a Foucault pendulum going: with an electromagnet on the ground at the center, that way they add energy without influencing the oscillation plane. And it ties in to PLLs.
Alexander Bain ca 1840
Ah. That explains the bottom of the revised pendulum which replaced the original when it broke! 😃
I just discovered your channel an hour ago. Absolutely brilliant!! Looks like I'll be up all night binging. Great content, great production. Keep up the good work! I grew up loving the pendulum at the Smithsonian which, sadly, no longer swings. This video helps redress that regretful loss.
I just recently discovered your channel, another youtuber (forgot, sorry) mentioned your channel and now I am subscribed. Thank you for the great content, the quality and care put in your videos is greatly appreciated.
Excellent! Love your videos. I was introduced to Foucault as a teenager when I built a Foucault tester for telescope mirrors. It amazed me (and still does 50 years later) that a simple apparatus could be used to measure the surface accuracy of a mirror to millionths of an inch using light.
that could be a follow up video
Got some notions to pick over about Copernicus' revision. When Ptolemy finished with his astronomical work with epicycles and equants, the calculations could be used to compute even Mars' orbit (the oddest of the planet orbits) to within a gnat's hair, excepting only the retro-motion nodes, as close as the eye could see. When the instruments that assisted the eye got better, it was found that adding epi-circles upon the epi-circles could adjust to every discrepancy. When Copernicus exchanged the sun and the Earth, none of that changed - the orbits under Copernicus were still circles and the epi-circles were still required to match reality. Johannes Kepler managed to eliminate both epicycles and the discrepancies at the nodes by throwing out the circle and using the ellipse instead. Copernicus' math was easier than Ptolemy's (at least to our modern notation and sensibilities) but was no more accurate. Astronomers continued using Ptolemy's until Kepler. You can, using a series of epi-circles, draw any imaginable orbit. You get more accuracy by using more epi-circles. There are YT videos that tell you how to design a series that will draw any cartoon you care to explore; Homer Simpson seems to be the one of choice.
Epicycles are hidden within Fourier analysis which is used in almost any aspect of modern science, particularly electronics. The homer Simpson orbit requires and absurd 1,000 epicycles within epicycles. The Batman logo is much more likely to be the actual orbit of some moon of a moon of a moon of a planet.
I always think Johannes Kepler gets seriously short-changed in these accounts, since he was the one who actually got the mathematics right.
I love your work/channel! Finally someone else who speaks machine! Keep it up!
These videos are incredible! Good work, Mr. Machine :)
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Excellent and informative.
Finding you channel is one of my best accomplishments this year so far
I just stumbled on your Channel via this old Tony and some machinery channels. You have one of the best KZhead channels I've ever seen. Fascinating content.
The only Foucault pendulum we have personally seen was at Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Because of its slow progress as it works its way across the movement of the Earth, one could easily surmise "What's all the fuss about, the big ball only swings back and forth", yet in that beautiful simple experiment was disproved so much that wasn't accepted simply because "It can't be so." Thanks for the video.
spikey 27 I ditto your comment on the GPO. I’ve been to the observatory dozens of times but mostly dismissed the social and scientific significance of this wonderful “machine”.
Hey Machine Thinking! Thanks for helping to tip the internet scales in the good direction! Whether the sharing of information experiment that is commonly called the internet turns out to be good or bad for the human race depends on the weight of good info vs bad info. So far as I can see I believe the good is slowly outpacing it's opponent.
Amazingly done videos, so fascinating, extremely well produced and narrated!
Keep it up, I love the content and the professionalism you have
all-around excellent , where have you been all these years ? Foucault's pendulum that captured my imagination was at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles , all these years I have been trying to figure out how is it mounted to the ceiling thinking that it is some sort of a rotating plate or ball bearing or something did not know that all what you need is a cable , when of my earliest scientific memorys is spending time looking at the water faucet in the garden as one drop drops down then a whole bunch of drops gather together after the first drop than all the drops drop at once , I was mesmerized by it . it is kind of interesting that we go through life without realizing how much science and scientific principle we utilize in our daily activities without even noticing .
I think There are guide plates on wich the câble bends, so as to distribute the flexing, that way the câble last longer, and wastes less energy in bending.
Great Video. Very informative. Those who follow the current trend of Flat Earthers should be required to watch this.
Wow! This is the greatest video, in terms of human history, i have seen in a long time. Thank you for posting it!
I love the title of this video, man. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Subscribed.
Oftentimes Truth is more nuanced and complex than we want it to be to fit an elegant narrative. While it fits the narrative to make the Catholic church the superstitious villains in the story, they actually had their reasons for not embracing heliocentrism that had little to do with Bible verses. At the time the Catholic church had some of the best scientists around who said that if the Earth moved then the stars should shift positions - just like things appear to move when you close your right eye and then your left eye - but the best telescopes of the time were not seeing that because at the time they did not know how ridiculously far away the stars were. So one of the main reasons the Catholic church rejected the heliocentric model was because the theory did not match the best scientific measurements available - they were not seeing parallax of the stars.
Ahh, yes, that totally paints the Church in a different light.Can there be better reason to declare heresy, threaten torture and death, than proposing hypotheses contradicting Church astronomers?
@@SuperShecky Insulting the Pope is what really got him in trouble. It's no different from what would happen in China if you were to publish a book calling the leader of China's Communist party Xi Zhinping an idiot.
@@Alorand You realize you aren't helping out the Church's reputation here.
@@SuperShecky Why should I care about their reputation? They are an ideology, and all ideologies deserve to be critically scrutinized. But for a person to make up their minds on the reality of the situation they need to know all the facts, which are often much more complex than the stories we tell make them out to be.
@@Alorand You're the one carrying water for the Church by providing "nuanced and complex" explanations. Explanations that paint a picture that isn't any better than the "elegant narrative". If your complaint is that the video isn't as in depth as you wish, go make your own video.
The church did not argue that this was not biblical or contradicted the bible but that it contradicted what Aristotle thought about the solar system, whom the church thought was right.it had nothing to do with the bible. This is a good example of Marx's re writing history.
You're channel is amazing! Thank you for sharing this knowledge
Found you a few days ago and I can say I'm hooked. Well done.
I’ve met girls who operate on geocentrizm.
I also operate in geocentrism. Planning daily routes (like home->campus) in heliocentrism is too complicated for me.
The first Vatican apology should have gone to Archimedes for the destruction of his codex. We would have gotten here over 1,500 years earlier had his works not been destroyed.
Tell the truth......do say?! Wow!!
We'd likely be an interstellar species by now. Except.. unfortunately.. religion.
Your videos should go on national tv and should be shown in schools. Excellent work.
My new favorite KZhead channel. I have worked as a machinist, also as a mechanical engineer, and my hobby is fixing mechanical and electrical machines. Your videos are very interesting and well researched. Great voice and speaking too. Thanks for all your hard work
Wasn’t long ago we had to unplug the TV so lightning didn’t strike it.
Bruno was executed because, even though he was a priest/friar, he denied the divinity of jesus. That marked him as a heretic regardless of whatever scientific beliefs he had. Galileo was given permission by his good friend, Maffeo Barberini / Pope Urban VIII, to write his book on the Copernican system as long as he followed the previous instructions of the head of the Inquisition in Italy, Roberto Bellarmini. Bellarmini had told Galileo that he could write a learned treatise on the mathematic and hypothetical motions of the Copernican theory. Galileo did not write it in Latin or in a learned manner. Worse while asking Ope Urban for permission , the Pope responded and was quoted by hi secretary as saying, "If God had wanted to put the Sun at the center of the Universe he could have. If God had wanted to put the Earth at the center of the Universe he could have. It's all the same to him." Galileo then had Simplicio (literally, Simpleton) repeat those same words in the book. Galileo had a great ability to argue for the right scientific concepts and the same ability to argue for incorrect ones (he believed that the moon did not influence the tides and that comets were atmospheric disturbances). Unfortunately, he insulted anyone who disagreed with him. Insulting Jesuits scholars was one of his greatest mistakes. They could have come to his aid when he needed help. At least he had the Medicis and their money helping out. It was through them that he got house arrest in his very nice villa with a servant, instead of jail. I'm not Catholic by the way.
Sooooooo . . . Religious Studies major with minor in Astronomy?
@@andrewstewart1464 Physics and astronomy professor with a deep interest in the history of science.
very enlightening...even the needless part about not being catholic...not sure where that is relevant. by the way, i'm not gay...(case in point)
@@dvig3261 Wanted to avoid the suspicion that I was writing an apologia for the Catholic Church. What suspicious acts are you trying to extricate yourself from by saying that you are not gay? LOL!
@@jmchez HaHa! I'm RC, a Deacon, not gay, but Curious [not yellow, from the Film title nor moniker]. An Aeronautical Engineer, later a Cleric, but still involved in Aerospace as an Astrotheological Researcher, but not a troll...yet. Give great thought to what you post, as everything you do will haunt you forever more...caw, caw. Or is it Ha!, Ha!
Another absolutely first class presentation. About the best retelling of the heliocentric discovery and eventual acceptance I have ever watched. Awesome!!!
Well done and great title. This reminds me of the programs made by James Burke for the BBC in the 1980's, The Day the Universe Changed, and Connections. Your work on this and other videos is impressive.
If you update this video, add "peer review" as one of the pillars of the scientific revolution.
peer review is older than mankind, it has started to go backwards.
@@brinjoness3386 prove it prove to me that the species that came before us had a system for peer review. you cant assumption is the mother of all fuckups remember that.
You rock. Society is better off with your videos, we all need to share your work.
Brilliant; educational , informative and well put together. Ive just discovered you but not for the last time
Our human history of science aught to be taught in 3rd grade as a beginning point. Your critical thinking on this history is very important and to the point. How refreshing.
Galileo was not punished for heliocentrism but for drawing theological conclusions from heliocentrism
Where do things like the Antikythera Mechanism fit in to these "discoveries" it seems that the Greeks had the knowledge around 70B.C even to the point of the moon being on an elliptical orbit. There is also evidence that the Arabic scholars also had a vast understanding of the solar system. I understand that this video is how the "discovery" came about in Europe and demonstrated a way to prove it to the general public. Great video, love the content.
I think he misspoke there, and what he meant was more the 'Greek tradition' - there was no official codified block of knowledge that came out of the Hellenic world. So while there was a lot of solid philosophical, scientific, and engineering done then, later scholars would have to sort through the chaff and retain the important and factual bits. This is why the Arabic / Islamic treatment of the ancient Hellenic information is so important : the ideas were further challenged and expounded upon. Remember there's no written record of where the AM came from or who made it.
@@semirrahge I agree it's just so fascinating on how what we thought we knew is being changed every day. Makes me wish I paid more attention to history in school.
@@jammin60psd sadly if you're in America you won't learn any of this so clearly in school... You'd need college level courses in Anthropology, World History, Economics, and Engineering. There's no good way to learn, or be inspired to learn, unless you get out and find it yourself!
@Paolo G lol - not sure how "well" they do it, they just do it a LOT and then yell about what they are doing. How many Christians even know the details about what they believe? It's all about avoiding anything that might change how you see the world. And if that includes avoiding all the things that allow us to survive or form nations or become economic powers then I guess IT'S GOD'S WILL. 😭🤮
all that shit was lost thanks to the dark ages.
Cont...that strained out the interesting parts that you add back in. When I view your presentation I feel the child-like wonder of the full story , and without a story, appreciation will be difficult, old or young. Thx.
Thank you for a wonderful episode, rather enjoyable.
So did pendulums become a meme in 1851?
*Every* transmissible idea is a "meme". Pendulums became a *viral* meme.
Another awesome video. Every flat Earther should see this.
True flat earthers would misunderstand it (they lack visualization, geometry, logic and math abilities), flat earther channels (dishonest) would cherry-pick and quote mine this video
@@georgH Agreed, true flat-tards will not understand any of this video at all. They'd say its more lies from NASA and that we're all shills.
@@georgH - The fun thing to do would be to challenge the (as you put it) true flat-earthers to come up with a mathematical explanation for the observed behaviour of Foucault's pendulums at different latitudes.
@@Garryck-1 That;s an insanely hilarious idea!! Your average flat-tard can barely add 2 and 2 together and get something between 3 and 7. Thanks for the giggles, however!!
I find simplicity is the key to getting to them. You have to use concepts so simple that any child can experiment with them. When silence is the answer to your questions you know you've made at least some impact. In other words you have to think back to the most basic observations you made as a child.
Amazing video and story telling. Reminds me of an old British series called “Connections”. I hope that some day soon you get to do a series for public television. You obviously have the ability. Thank you for enlightening me. I finally have a grasp as to the importance of the pendulum that swings in so many science museums and observatories. Thank you!
It reminds you "Connections" because he talks exactly like James Burke in this video (even the mannerisms, like "you see..." and how he makes some emphases). I don't want to point fingers, but it looks really suspicious.
One of the best videos I´v ever seen. Mind blowing.
Foucault also made a 1 million power optical microscope. It is specialized and shows irregularities on a telescope mirror as bumps. The irregularities' height appear to be a mm to about 5 mm above a flat surface. When the surface appears perfectly flat it is perfectly spherical. From that, using jeweler's rouge only the mirror is polished more in the center till it shows the perfect donut shape which means it is a parabola. Parabolic mirrors were made before that time but they were made by polishing the mirror to spherical (you guess) and then deepening it to parabolic (you guess). William Herschel not only made them for himself but for export. They were made of "speculum" alloy, sometimes called bronze. But bronze is copper hardened with a bit of tin and these were tin hardened with a bit of copper. One unsold Herschel mirror was taken from its sealed can (against corrosion) and given the Foucault test. It was a bit too deep for parabolic so it was a bit hyperbolic. But it was real good for a workmanlike guess. I made a 3" telescope mirror from ordinary glass (and abrasive powders from a jeweler) in my basement and made the Foucault test. It was most amazing to see it, knowing how much the magnification was. Besides the mirror itself all that is needed is a pinhole source of light (preferably monochromatic) and a razor blade.
... and there are those that believe the earth is flat and square supported by 4 elephants.
Turtles, all the way down!
I'm not a believer in flat earth, but this certainly wouldn't be one of those facts that would disprove flat earth, as remember. the Lathe surface that was spinning was flat, not a sphere
This is explained in 09:10. As usual FE misquoting, misunderstanding.
Also, note earlier in the video that all models for geocentric Earth, it is a sphere, that was known since antiquity. Basically, is the only explanation that changing latitude also changes the stars you see by the same angle. This is impossible on a FE. I'm sorry you lack the abilities to visualize this in your head, FE take advantage of that and you believe their lies. You said you are not a flat earther, well, this is one of their "reasons" and YES the pendulum proves it is rotating and the rotation observed on the pendulum depends on latitude. That is also impossible on a FE. So there you go, you are not a FE but spread their lies.
Absolute nonsense! It's obviously a disc.
your work is invaluable
this should be a good reminder to young generations who think nothing existed before mobile phones .... thank you !
Im pretty sure they dont think that
@@SSchithFoo I am pretty sure most do. I am part of that generation... most think they are the smartest people to ever exist and people of the past were dirty and stupid. Truth couldnt be further from that
I got in trouble when I swung my big pendulum in public.
I know, right? People are so easily upset! Just doin' some science here, OK?
Dorian Cross Oh my!
Can u do the helicopter?
Where in Pakistan?
I got in trouble when I used thermometer in public...
Really solid video! I'm enjoying your perspective on the history of science and engineering. Thanks!
found this channel today and watched almost every video.
Copernicus studied the work of Arab astronomers before he came to the conclusion that our planetary system is heliocentric. However with this theory astronomers could still not reconcile star tables, until Kepler discovered that planets orbit in an eclipse - not a circle. This fitted the mathematical models and star tables perfectly, and today we still use Kepler's three laws of planetary motion to launch satellites or space travel.
Always with the Africans and Middle Easterners trying to co-opt science. The one thing that you didn't invent was the printing press and since the Europeans did, they will take that credit, thank you very much. Now go back to your adobe hut.
@@TheOsfania You were in an adobe hut before the Romans conquered you!! If God had made one group of people superior in technology, then this would have gone to their heads and they would have seen themselves as "superior" to others. You are most probably driving a Japanese car, surrounded by Japanese electronics. One Asian country that surpasses all in the field of science and tech, think about it.
No. He studied and credited the work of Aristarchus of Samos who did a trigonometric analysis between the Moon, the Sun and the Earth. Aristarchus reasoned that, based on his analysis, the Sun was much bigger than the Moon and therefore should not be orbiting the Earth. His ideas fell out of fashion because the Greeks could not conceive that the stars were so distant that, as Earth that orbited the Sun, you could not see a change of position for them. The one Arab astronomer who doubted the geocentric theory was Ibn al-Haytham, aka Alhasen, who calculated that Ptolemy's epicycles for Jupiter would interfere with the one for Mars.
Hey! That fear and loathing isn't unlike CNN during our US election season, right?! (LOL!)
Thank you MT to sharing your knowledge.
Love the vids! I remember when scientific history was a part of the curriculum in the UK. Now the Industrial revolution is only touched upon and the main focus is on the two world wars. It shows that the times have shifted to a point where most graduates have little knowledge of the Scientific Revolution or the Art and philosophical revolutions yet, the seem so geared up to start their own!
Sadly, I believe we have come to an age of "stupid" for the last 30 years. I drive classic cars, and see machines of yesterday and today... And look around the youth of today with sadness.
Do you look at a modern car and see "stupid"? I might see the odd design mistake, but what I see is amazing technology that would have been absolutely impossible 30 years ago no matter how much time and money you threw at it. It's a bit cynical to write such things on a device that didn't even exist, on a video sharing website that hadn't even been invented, 30 years ago. What I do observe with sadness is the rise of regressive and even anti-scientific policies.
@@stefantrethan actually I do. In the first half of the last century we made leaps and bounds of progress. In the last 30 years all we've done is throw some electronics on the dash and pandered to a consumer who wants a new shapeless blob every year. I do a lot of work on newer cars, and know what's under the cheap plastic that falls apart after less than a decade.
Now that is exactly what an important man wrote in a book 500 years ago . .
@@InvincibleExtremes ignorant much? geeze all you back in my time people are the same. sorry but i dont want a computer from 30 years ago because its slow, i dont want a camera from 30 years ago because it wont be as high a resolution, i have access to the internet and tons of limitless knowledge. but sure lets go back 30 years and make life worse off.
@@InvincibleExtremes go crash your 30 year old car into a new car and try to walk away.
5:31 "Clearly says, in many places, that the earth is the centre of everything" I dont see anything about being the center of everything, not only this, but as an engineer, I know there are multiple meanings to the word "center" depending on its context. In addition, during the middle ages there was a lot of religious malpractice, so the contradiction, as you failed to find, wasn't on the Bible, but rather on the religious officials who claimed to have been "appointed by God", which is not explicitly stated in the Bible. Those religious officials also claimed that sins would be forgiven if you pay sacraments to the church. Its like if I were to say "I was appointed by God to write this comment." More like everything happens for a reason, which is according to God's plan. Perhaps this is a better interpretation.
Thank you for this wonderful video. Thank you for your concise explanations of processes and the history of everything, really. Everything stems from precise engineering. Everything.
Thank you for your amazing videos. All of them.
It seems to me that science rides on the coattails of technology. I'm very skeptical that the scientific method or one's epistemology is as crucial to the development of technology as is stated by this video and so many others. Aristotle, Archimedes, and various Greeks were able to discover useful mathematics, technology, and science without going through any formal scientific method. So many technologies are based on superficially understood phenomena that science comes in and explains after the fact. That's why I find that science is too self congratulatory.
Those scriptures are metaphors describing the steadfastness of nature as prescribed by God. Not that the Earth physically sits on a pedestal. You telling me someone took them literally?
Are you saying you're not taking god at his word, heretic?
Yes. Many, many, many people took that literally and were ready to punch you for even asking a question about it. I personally know such people even today.
Sadly, there are still far too many people today who take them literally.
"It's a metaphor" is what modern apologists came up with to smooth over all the discrepancies between scripture and reality. Historically there was nothing metaphorical about the bible, it was the literal word of god in the strictest sense possible and anyone who dared think different was to be burned on a stake.
@@aleksandersuur9475 So, when Christ says to go out and sow wheat, he doesn't mean spread the word of God - instead by your definition he means, to literally go plant wheat... Ugh... you're idiocy astounds me. And by that I mean your "pick-and-choose" dogma of only applying it to those things that meet your definition and calling it strict interpretation. lol
I love this video and this whole channel. Got to see the Vaucanson lathe AND the Foucault pendulum this past summer!
BRILLIANT as always...Thanks
What a boring regurgitation of establishment propaganda.
Go away flat-tard. To learn X, Y and Z you first have to comprehend A, B and C.
then how exactly do you explain the movement of a pendulum? Your comment has basically no content. An empty hull, no argumentation, not even trying to proof something. Using words like Propaganda does not increase the value of your comment without any logical argumentation or some sort of proof. And please leave us alone with the "you can find the truth yourself if you just binge watch Conspiracy videos on youtube" bullshit.
@@idontknow31212 "Galileo Was Wrong, the Church Was Right" by Robert Sungenis. Read the true version of the story. Galileo only proved Ptolemaic system wrong, but that did't automatically mean that the heliocentric one is correct. That meant that both neo-Tychonic and heliocentric COULD be correct. And to this day nobody proved only one of them correct, because all that we know today is that rotating Universe around fixed Earth generates forces eqal to "ficticious" forces on rotating Earth in static Universe. And since modern science simply doesn't have a clue what's the nature of inertia and gravitation, question of what is in the center reamains open. Same to all optical experiments. Stellar parallax and aberration only indicate that there's relative motion, but it does not point, what is fixed and what is really moving.
A very good presentation. Highly interesting. You bring to light many points that are not universally known by the common man. I will look in on future videos.
This is my new favorite channel!
In the 1960'sd I worked as a student assistant for the physics department at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. One of my first responsibilities was to create the electromagnet drive for the Foucault pendulum in the then new Science Building. Our pendulum was driven at the top rather than from below, using a large drill chuck for the iron mass and a Helmholtz coil for adding a small amount of energy to replace what was lost through air friction.
Your videos are absolutely great. You should make more, split them into 10 minutes a piece and space out the release. Also, I would have signed up if you had patreon, and some collabs with history channels would be great too. This channel would blow up I think.
if you keep making content like this your channel is destined to explode in popularity even more
Loving these videos.
This is my favorite video ever and I almost passed it up. After watching it I felt the title was perfect, but before I watched it I thought maybe it was a typo and you meant to say ‘loathing’. How sad that a perfect title can be so imperfect for youtube. KZhead should give awards to videos like this and make them more accessible.
Good work on the video. I'm looking forward to seeing more from you. Also, My favorite Foucault pendulum is at the Buel Planetarium in Pittsburgh.
I grew up in Chicago, and visiting the Museum of Science and Industry, where I believe an exact or close to duplicate was always swinging for the nine years I lived there. It was an incredibly brilliant, and yet simple evidence that never stops. Thanks, never knew how to pronounce his name. Great video, never ceases to steal my attention.
Love your videos. Learned more and actually understand it, better than school.
Thank you for your videos. They help me to appreciate that we live in a world of wonders and benefit from the hard work and ingenuity of quite a few remarkable people. You also discussed the role of the church in a nuanced way doing the times in which these exciting developments happened justice.
What a great channel. Kudos for doing what you’re doing. I’m your newest subscriber.
Just discovered this video. Brilliant. I intend to recommend it. From Baton Rouge USA
Wicked video mate! Nice one. You feel science like I do. Might I suggest a story format video like this one but of Fred Hoyle, his stellar synthesis triumph along with his steady state ideas, his naming of the big bang (and why he named it such) and you could end with the absolutely shattering (to me anyway) that we are all made from the ash of long dead stars! I feel that your research - presentation skills, plus your obvious deep emotional feel for science, would do that story huge justice.
Your videos are awesome!
Excellent video, good work.
My new favorite KZhead channel!
The Foucault pendulum I remember best is at the U.N. building in New York City. A pendulum always seems to fascinate me, grabs my attention along with something that flies. I'm really liking these videos. Thank you.
You should have more views, really liked it, keep it up
Your thoughts and enthusiasm are expressed very well throughout your videos. I’ve enjoyed being educated by you. I have a difficult time pinpointing one video above another as the one I like the best since they are all very interesting. Thank you for what you’ve been doing! P.s. I would appreciate a resume or biography of sorts under your “about” page. A type of bonafides if you will. I’m very careful where I get my information from on the internet which I’m sure you can appreciate. You have presented your information in a manner that appears to be a logical progression of fact for someone like me who doesn’t have a strong background in any particular science but at 57 yoa still enjoys learning from a gifted teacher. Thanks again! P.s.s. A video by you on the Egyptian wonders of the world explaining how they accomplished such amazing engineering from moving massive blocks to the perfect carving of the stones and monuments would be interesting.