Archimedes: More than Just a Screw

[@markrichards6171]

Simon, I think the history of how ancient texts survived through time is an often overlooked part of history. I would love to see a video on this subject.

[@hmao4466]

Agreed.

[@mikeclarke952]

Parchment. Roll them up, and store in a dry dark place, which usually meant a large clay vessel. This also kept out insects and rodents. Important: Do not add fire. Viola , 1000s yrs old text preserved.

[@markrichards6171]

@@mikeclarke952 Certainly, that is how they are physically preserved. But many texts have changed hands over the years, and I think those stories would be very interesting.

[@rowankorvaholm7449]

During the Golden Age of Islam, materials from the ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Indians were translated with Abbasid Caliphal patronage into Arabic. These eventually reached Europe and were translated into Latin. 🤙

[@markrichards6171]

@frankeb1980 That would make a great episode. Stories of some of those important texts that have created Western Culture. If the actual books survived, who holds them, and who copied these texts and preserved this legacy. I know many were copied in the early Christian monasteries, during the Middle Ages.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:35 - Chapter 1 - Archimedes's screw 4:35 - Chapter 2 - The king's crown 6:30 - Chapter 3 - Burning mirrors 10:20 - Chapter 4 - Other works 11:30 - Chapter 5 - Death

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

But did Archimedes have several YT channels? Checkmate

[@andyv16012]

Archimedes didn't have Danny or a cool script slap.

[@joeyr7294]

The checkmate reminded me of Davie504 for some reason

[@happymeal5182]

@@andyv16012 or cocaine.

[@hidesbehindpseudonym1920]

@@happymeal5182 he might have had that. There's a PBS secrets of the Dead special on cocaine mummies from Egypt.

[@happymeal5182]

@@hidesbehindpseudonym1920 can you link that, i would love to watch that.

[@sukmanutzak9547]

I guess you could say this Archimedes fellow had alot of.... Side projects..

[@SRW_]

BA DUM BA TSS!!

[@ericvantassell6809]

but he was a bit of a screwup

[@onradioactivewaves]

Allegedly.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

This comment gave me a sense of displacement.

[@prekreich]

CSI Miami intro music plays

[@NAC_Exec]

Simon in back alley: "Hey kid, you like entertainment." (Opens jacket full of his youtube channels)

[@blairmarshall544]

Very witty must say defo worth a giggle bravo

[@johnmcnally7812]

*edutainment

[@Sommertest]

You should do a biography of John Moses Browning. The guy was a genius

[@pd4165]

He can't - they'd shoot him ;-P

[@advent-expedition]

I pooped my pants..

[@LordInter]

James Puckle

[@douglasshouganai2516]

maybe eugene stoner as well?

[@douglasshouganai2516]

heck, throw in gaston glock.... but that one maybe for the Blaze?

[@Dichuz91]

the Archimedes screw even became an invaluable device in american steam railroad, as many steam locomotives got bigger so did the labor require to fire them, the big boy locomotive that you covered on mega projects was one such locomotive, as well as it's sister locomotives the challngers and FEF's, but alot of railroad during the steam era employed the Archimedes screw as a way of transferring coal from the tender and into the firebox, which enabled these beasts of steam and steel to successfully operate without requiring multiple firemen all working in unison to shovel coal by hand.

[@joeyr7294]

I'm glad you re posted this I was kinda sad when I went to watch it earlier and it said it was removed. Keep up the hard work Simon and Co.🍻

[@AmberWool]

After failing the first time, Mythbusters revisited the mirror myth. The boat caught fire the second time, validating the myth as fact.

[@chrislong3938]

er... Plausible...

[@RCAvhstape]

Not confirmed, just plausible, and barely so. Doing that mirror trick on an actual warship in combat would be a lot more difficult.

[@sequoiahughes8536]

That first episode was the height of idiocy given that we have power stations that work by exactly that principle: a bunch of mirrors reflecting sunshine to heat an area up hot enough to melt salt. Thousands of soldiers holding mirrors reflecting sunshine on a single source could easily light a sail on fire

[@RCAvhstape]

@@sequoiahughes8536 Takes a lot of coordination, and making really polished mirrors was harder back then. Then try doing it with thousands of disciplined Romans shooting at you, and possibly landing off to your side and about to assault you.

[@888johnmac]

@@sequoiahughes8536 .. there are a few differences , modern mirrors , the power station isn't moving ( you know like a ship on water ) are 2 i can think of immediately

[@keterbinah3091]

im 53 now but in 1977 in class the teacher asked all us 7 yr olds, how to get water up the hill , baring in mind i was a slow learner/ remedial (i used to stare off into space alot but i was only 7) i drew side profile a metal screw encased in wooden planks , and i remember she asked me shaking her head "but how do you get the water out ?" i said "you turn the handle miss" then she said "but how do you hold it ?" i said "its on two legs " as i had drawn. she was having none of it , and kept saying "no , no " (me) "but miss you just.... "no ,(sigh) jason ... and she walked off to the next kid.. i was gutted. true story , blows my mind, i essentially invented archimedes screw unbeknown to me at the time.

[@uncle7162]

You are like a factory with these channels man I remember when biographies had launched a few days before now, Side Projects, Biographics, Geographics, Megaprojects, Sideprojects, Today I found out. Bloody hell man keep up the work you have so many channels and all are pretty successful and well the amount of time and effort you put in. The researching the recording the editing the final touches the subtitles the credits and each channel usually gets a video a day and there’s a fair few keep it up. All my respect ;v)

[@flatjesus]

Fun fact: The archimedes screw was invented independently well before Archimedes's time. The Assyrian king Sennacherib used them to irrigate the grand gardens of his palace in the 7th century B.C.E. (There is a compelling argument these were actually the historical hanging gardens of Babylon).

[@svenblubber5448]

Neither Archimedes or his contemporaries claimed he invented the Archimedes Screw, and historians generally agree that he didn't. He observed use of the mechanism in egypt, where it had been used for a long time, described it, and brought it to the rest of the greek world!

[@TheLadiGigi]

Biggest understatement of the year- "As you may know, I have a few channels." 🤣

[@stevek5988]

You don't say !!!

[@JustCameronAndHisJeep]

Thank you for the re-post. Love your videos... channels... just keep being awesome, and stay safe.

[@iiconfused]

The Archimedes Pampliset needs an episode all to itself. I mean, FFS, they put it in the beam of a particle accelerator in order to read it.

[@MusicalRaichu]

The "rude" remark to the soldier was alegendly "Do not disturb my circles".

[@henriroggeman7267]

The displacement of the water doesn't depend on the weight of the crown but on it's volume, Simon. It's the amount of counterweight that gives away the deception.

[@jameshoyal8618]

Thank you! I kept reading wondering when that was going to come up. It's surface area or 'volume' that determines displacement in a fluid.

[@davidneel8327]

A suggestion for a video. Not sure where it would fit but look at the traffic tunnels in the Faroe Islands. One even has a roundabout.

[@JimTheFly]

Damn. I've been trying to push my local mega/sideproject (raising the height of a bridge by 60 feet while still keeping the bridge in use, thereby allowing NYC's biggest port to remain open for New Panamax ships), but holy crap I want to hear about this one even more after looking into it. That is simply incredible.

[@auntiejen5376]

I've subscribed to a couple of your channels and I enjoy everything I watch. Love learning new things.

[@ryandowney8743]

Wow, I had no idea his notebook was in a museum so close to me! I'll definitely have to check that out. Thanks, Simon!

[@rca19]

Me too!

[@beckyeinolf3300]

They've got hundreds (maybe thousands) of old rare books. I spent every Saturday there that I could manage when I was a kid. Amazing place!

[@alexhurst3986]

"A few channels?" Biographics, Geographics, Top Tenz, Today I Found Out, Business Blaze, Megaprojects, Side Projects, Brainfood, Highlight History. Pretty sure I missed a few. This should be called SimonTube, although that has too many, um, connotations.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Fun fact: Simon is the reincarnation of Archimedes

[@coweatsman]

Let's hope he never solves a difficult problem while taking a bath.

[@stevek5988]

@@coweatsman correct. No-one wants to see a naked Simon running out into the street saying I did it.

[@speckledjim9895]

'More than just a screw' - hey, my wedding vows!

[@pd4165]

Adam Hart Davis' version of Archimedes' solar death ray worked, as seen in episode 8 of What The Ancients Did For Us - The Greeks. I can't access the video due, due to BBC copyright in the UK, but it's there for anyone without geographical limitations to see. I remember watching Mythbusters and being unimpressed after Adam Hart Davis had managed it.

[@ZacTheProffitt]

Simon, I follow most of your channels, I'm am just stunned by the amount of knowledge you put into great videos. Keep it up ma, we love it.

[@Finallyfree423]

Hey thank the writers too!! He might come up with most of the ideas but all of his channels have writers as far as I know

[@QqJcrsStbt]

Maybe give up one channel's time for fact checking and deeper, less superficial research.

[@twocvbloke]

And in Halifax (UK for those suddenly confused canucks) there's a kids' science museum named Eureka! and depicted a clear bathtub of Archimedes being lowered in, displacing water and shooting out with the museum sign lighting up above him, and the displaced water was pumped back into the bath using an Archimedes screw system, was fun to watch as a kid... :D

[@misterhoeflak]

Thank you, I finally have a title for my memoirs.

[@davidgreen3423]

Simon do a video on the Hanford Nuclear Project! There are tons of interesting facts. It is one of the US’ nuclear development sites used during the manhattan project that still runs today

[@gerritgovaerts8443]

You forgot the best part : recent research has shown that he actually invented calculus (integration especially)

[@nicwilson89]

10:03 One of those diagrams clearly showed something more like a lens assembly/giant magnifying glass rather than mirrors, although it could be a magnifying device that employed mirrors rather than just straight bouncing sunlight off a mirror. No one that's tested the 'death ray' theory that I have seen has tried this approach which would, if it were done even decently well, certainly be able to burn wood and sail at set distances. Mirrors that bounced sunlight through a magnifying device to allow it to be more easily pointed at various ships would be fairly effective as long as the ships weren't already too close. Even an array of mirrors that focussed sunlight onto another mirror which sent it off to wherever, perhaps. There have been reports from the ancient world across the globe of the use of what could reasonably be such devices to ignite timber and even cauterize wounds, whether these be tales from the imagination of real world events, the similarity to a magnifying glass which wasn't officially invented until much later is intriguing. Given that there are tales of such things being used on a small scale to set things on fire, it's also possible that someone used that principle to write a cool story about how he sent ships to their fiery doom by a death ray of sunlight and pain in valiant defence of the island.

[@juliehovar5488]

Dear Simon and Team: was not Archimedes'screw; its earlier design, located/discovered at Nebakanesor's Hanging Gardens for His Wife? As depictions of psalm fronds (having been trimmed thus knowledge of a spiraling upward suggustion) able to supply such fine H20 to heights. Dr. Stephanie told of this, about her research a few decades ago.....would enjoying understanding/learning more about "Hero" spelling unsure.....you know, that old Greek master who created most incredible inventions with STEAM and PRESSURE and pazaz and thrill? Snowing much here now. End of line and THANK YOU ALL.

[@J3scribe]

I always envision Ian Anderson at the mention of Archimedes, dancing to aqualung. Now that's fuckin' genius.

[@Ramonatho]

"There's a giant Archimedes screw over there." "Huh, lucky Archimedes."

[@paulgracey4697]

Despite the Mythbusters trying the Archimedes mirror idea of setting a warship afire twice with no success I think they (deliberately) left out what made the Greeks similar experiment succeed. Those warships had pitch (pine tar, perhaps) for caulking, yes, but also in a heated pot on board to dip their arrows in for setting fire to opposing ships with the flaming arrows. This may, or may not have worked to ignite the ships but psychologically scaring the sailors with the prospect of their ship afire would have an affect. I know as once a U.S.Navy sailor myself, that fire aboard is a very great fear for which we trained regularly to be able to extinguish. Pitch already heated in a caldron would be like napalm about to go off. Instead of trying to set a wet hull ablaze, even where there was pitch oozing out of the seams, the more flammable sails, and pitch covered rigging of those ships would be the target. I think Mythbusters took the notion of sinking the ship, as legend has it, far to seriously.

[@eggsaladsamich7396]

Please don't be mad that side projects is my favourite of all your channels

[@DestroySteve]

We have 4 of these screws in my city near a dam and channel lock. Pretty great to see them work every once and a while after a big rain.

[@roycsinclair]

Archimedes screw is in far more use than you might think. The ubiquitous "grain auger" found on farms and grain elevators today are nothing more than Archimedes screw used for grain instead of water.

[@anonymousrex5207]

I always thought Archimedes most famous quote (and solution to most problems) was "screw this!"

[@ravenm6443]

Video suggestion: I don’t know what you could find on this, but the Xiangyun International Project spans across 1,800 acres but was left abandoned in 2014. There been a few urban explorers on KZbin (like the proper people), who have explored it. It’s an interesting building.

[@alemesh1052]

Thank you. I enjoyed listening to your video about Archimedes. I remember this from my high school physics and still remember it. I always wanted to google about Archimedes and the EUREKA MOMENT. I grew up in Africa and I had amazing physics and chemistry teachers.👏👏👏Please, do let us know more about the ROYAL CROWN story.

[@catherinesearle9596]

Archimedes' screw actually existed for centuries before Archimedes. It is claimed to have been invented by Assyrian King Sennacherib in the 7th century BC (although its unlikely he personally invented it). He used it to create hanging gardens which were the inspiration for the later hanging gardens of Babylon, where archimedes' screws were used to bring water to each step of the stepped pyramid.

[@STScott-qo4pw]

archimedes' screw is the basis for the absence of oil pumps in cars: oil impeller is the name given to it - much steadier flow of oil, fewer moving parts. Effing genius and so simple.

[@stephencaparelli7733]

different type of pump entirely. oil pump is positive displacement pump.

[@STScott-qo4pw]

@@stephencaparelli7733 😢

[@DauntlessX23]

5:53 I think the part about the density of the crown is a little wrong. Density wont affect the amount of water displaced. He couldn't calculate the volume before he found the water method. Knowing the volume and the weight gave him the density he was looking for. But as long as the density is more than water, the displacement of water is dependent on volume. Really enjoying this channel though!

[@BabyMakR]

No. Density is the relationship between the weight of an object and the weight of the water it displaces. He's 100% right on it and it is a method that is still used buy laboratories and high school students to this day.

[@crazyphrog6289]

I did a small biography on Archimedes for a school project many years ago. The bathtub story also included that he was the first streaker in history. I love youf video's across all your channels. It makes me wish I was a kid now, or that I had KZbin, or indeed the internet, when I was younger for school projects. Have you done a video on the invention of the internet yet?

[@mb-3faze]

That goldsmith making the crown needed a good lawyer. The crown could still be pure gold but the volume/weight/density calculation could easily have been distorted if the final crown contained trapped air bubbles. Short of melting it down again to ensure no trapped air or other substances there's no real way to determine purity.

[@davidphillips9640]

This is a GOOD video, brother!

[@billshiff2060]

Also Writings of the time also mention Archimedes made a machine that does exactly what the antikythera mechanism does and that General Marcellus took 2 of the machines from Archimedes shop.

[@SaintElsewhere333]

Watched this in hopes of hearing you reference archimedes creation of the Syracusia! Id say its much more important and mysterious than the claw or mirrors because we know it did indeed exist

[@skizzik121]

this title is worthy of The Blaze, great job naming this one.

[@skymaster4121]

Back in those times the screw was such an ingenius and smart idea, that the way of saying “Screw you” was actually a compliment....

[@DarkShroom]

you seem to miss-understand gold or silver doesn't displace more water (5:50), this was how he worked out the volume. By working out the volume he can then correlate that to the expected weight in gold

[@BabyMakR]

No. He measured the density. The relationship between the volume of an object and it's weight. That is how we measure density today. Weight per volume.

[@Daki400]

I keep discovering more and more of Simon Whistler's channels. There are so any, I refuse to believe he does it all by himself. He must be several skinsuit-wearing lizards from Alpha Centauri taking turns playing "Simon Whistler"

[@FlyinRaptorJesus]

10:43 I thought the quote was; give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and i shall move the world.

[@johnemerson1363]

Close enough!

[@BradGryphonn]

00:50 There are 2 choices: Either 'you can't grow grass on a busy street' or 'Grass doesn't grow on barren ground'.

[@philliberatore4265]

Interesting video as almost always, Simon . Your script and production quality are almost always spot-on. So, if I may say, the lighting in this one was a bit harsh. It looks like you lost a fill light on your left.

[@AdmiralBob]

Is this the title of a blog post made after Archimedes had a one night stand and got ghosted?

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

Poor Archimedes might've been on the verge of another breakthrough till he got struck by a sword ... Imagine the world today if he successfully pulled it off (if the soldier let him do his job...)

[@lordofelectrons4513]

Concentrated sun light is rather amazing. Many years ago a friend of mine acquired a large fennel lens of approximately 48" x 36" (1.2 m x 0.9 m ) with a focal length of about 48" Using this we sliced through steel soup cans with ease reducing a can to shards in a with in a minute.

[@nicwilson89]

Oh man, that sounds cool

[@robsantos8012]

Mythbusters did a whole show on the burning mirrors legend. Even using many, computer-aimed modern mirrors, they were unable to do any damage to a ship - busted!

[@BabyMakR]

I think they ended up doing 2 episodes, didn't they?

[@mattfavaloro350]

Times like this when you really appreciate being Sicilian

[@AmberWool]

My maiden name was Palma, so I, too, appreciate being from Sicily.

[@kieronparr3403]

Mafia confirmed

[@beckyeinolf3300]

Simon - don't sell the Walter's Art Museum short! They have an amazing collection, including, among other things, 2 of the 69 known Faberge eggs (including the one with the big gold castle inside), thousands of rare books, ancient Greek pottery, Egyptian statues,, medieval European, stained glass... everything from armor (both samurai and western european) to ancient gold artifacts and stone fertility statues from precolumbian Panama. You can go to any great museum anywhere and you may well see something with a small card next to it that says it's on loan from the Walters Art Museum.

[@jimmymonztarella8562]

Absolutely the best KZbinr.

[@shadyoakum9978]

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is one of the hidden gems of the United States.

[@Sailor376also]

I, myself do not believe the mirrors were sufficiently well made to focus on the ships.. But,, the ships were not just wood. The two common items with much lower ignition points were sails, a tars that were used to seal everything. As to how difficult today? There are two building I can think of that fry automobiles just as a child might fry an ant. A licensed architect decided it was a good idea to face a building sized concentrating mirror south onto a London street. Yeah,, he could have fried a tar, sails, wooden vessel.

[@asicdathens]

Euclid is credited for the first paper in mathematics, Archimedes is credited for the first real paper in Physics.

[@terryarmbruster7986]

Actually oldest known math paper along with engineering is Egyptian. Contains a good approximation of area of a given circle and other problems.

[@asicdathens]

@@terryarmbruster7986 Archimedes wrote the first mathematical physics paper using axiomatic method, the same way scientific papers are still written especially in mathematics. Euclid invented the Q.E.D. part and the rigorous process to arrive to it. That's why Newton's main work is called Principia Mathematica from Principles of Geometry

[@terryarmbruster7986]

@@asicdathens week you corrected yourself,not I. Of course I knew that but you didn't know about Egyptian geometrist. Of course there's many orhers. Yes the first AXIOMATIC paper but far from the first paper with step by step procedures. Lol guy I have three degrees in mathematics statistics and interdisciplinary studies. Euclid's axioms aren't even a complete system and essentially are mostly abandoned at university level. I did Hilbert and non conformal mapping geometry among many others lmao. 😂 hagd

[@terryarmbruster7986]

@@asicdathens lol you're Greek and you don't know what geometry meant then? It meant measuring the earth. Furthermore again neither Euclid's or Archimedes axioms are complete. Please when you inform someone make sure that person DOESN'T know the subject. Lol and I also am just two classes shy of a theoretical physics degree. You do know Newtonian mechanics is basically good for engineering and low Level physics but not much else anymore. You seem to be a patriotic enthusiastic Greek high school math teacher. Well let me roll my five -hedron dice...you know it's Greek math the five perfect volume shapes of earth wind fire water and spirit lol.

[@asicdathens]

@@terryarmbruster7986 5th postulate is valid for 99.999 of activities requiring geometry like construction or engineering in general

[@andycopland3179]

I accidentally subscribed while trying to scroll. I'll take it as a sign from the higher ups and leave it.

[@nejm612]

I forgot I had, but was happily reminded with this in my feed

[@mho...]

one does not simply unsubsribe simons channels

[@andycopland3179]

@@mho... For all the faults of the Internet, channels like this show people have a curiosity for knowledge. I like that.

[@jtb6737]

I am still jealous of the beard, well done Simon !

[@carlbergstrom7333]

I kept waiting for you to mention the speculation that Archimedes was responsible for the Antikythera mechanism

[@Three60Mafia]

Wasn't there a story in the news sometime ago that a building with weird curved glass was melting cars in the streets below it by focusing sunlight down with just enough intensity?

[@NathanNGM]

MORE! Need more about this dude!

[@lukeguy6091]

I remember learning about the density of that crown from a weird co-lab lesson from my history and science teacher in early comprehensive school. I always thought of his mirrors as a concept piece rather than an actual invention, like much of Da Vincie's work. Is it true that some of Da Vincie's work was destroyed by the Vatican? I remember reading that he stated blood leaves or enters (possibly both?) the heart valves in a vortex, a theory not proven until sometime in the 1980's. So much lost and destroyed work in history, if I had the resources I'd do some sort of internet video about this topic.

[@neilgoodman2885]

Mr. Whistler: Archimedes' is one of my favs, even if I have to look up the spelling all the time. I was wondering if you have done a show on sieges and their effects on the populations, throwing of heads, feces, and rotten body parts, etc? I know I can be really morbid, but then, what is life really about? Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada

[@blackvic5157]

Simon want suggestions for more to do? Cripes amighty, what's it take? I couldn't keep up if I had 25 hours in my day. I say with gratitude "Huzzah!" Pip, pip. And here's hoping you're raking it in with both hands.

[@DexterHaven]

Euclid died about 13 years before Archimedes was born. Archimedes learned math form his book "Elements" and disciples of Euclid, though, but not from Euclid himself.

[@mikeatyouttube]

The artisan accused of substituting silver for gold needed a better lawyer. No mention is made of the possibility that the gold used in the crown could have had trapped impurities such as air which would make the volume bigger but kept the same mass therefore decreasing the density. Get a block of gold bash an indentation in it and then crease over and blend the gold back in to an apparently solid block, trapping the air The same amount of gold would be used but the measured density would be less. Suspect Archimedes groked that later - but probably too late. Maybe the centurion who dispatched Archimedes in the end was related to the crown maker and was extracting revenge.

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Best Title to a video EVER!

[@jasonantes9500]

I suggest that a bit of marine archeology (ok maybe a bit more than a bit) could lay the mirror thing to rest. If a lot of boats when down from burning it's likely that a lot of that is still on the seafloor.

[@justandy333]

Excellent pronunciation of Archimedes and Euclid. We do notice when you nail the pronunciation 😉

[@Forsight0l0]

"I've got a few channels" Fails to mention Business Blaze. Who is a Legend if not Archimedes Simon!? Who?!

[@jackhandma1011]

Definitely up there with Tesla, Da Vinci and Heron. He's also, IMO one of the top four mathematicians of all time but that's another story.

[@mikeclarke952]

I thought Archimedes Principle was Mr. Smith? "Hey get your hands off me, I can walk, stop it..ahhhh".

[@Finallyfree423]

Hey no mention of your best channel?!? Blaze Simon is always best Simon. I heard him slip out a bit with that bald joke.

[@jackclelland3230]

Why u yellow skin

[@pottsniffgrond8488]

CocaineSimon?

[@GeniusMrRemyd]

I just learned about this guy for the first time today. 🤯 I can’t tell you how much I have learned just because it’s via the voice of Simon Whistler.

[@sandybarnes887]

Business Blaze Mega Projects Side Projects Top Tenz Today I Found Out Biographics Geographics Highlight History Xplrd Visual Politik EN The Simon Whistler Show I may have missed one. Visual Politk EN is now hosted by someone else. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had new content for a while.

[@frankySinn]

You covered the raising of Chicago. The Chicago deep tunnel project may be worth covering as well.

[@thusspokechris]

The sewage treatment plant where I live use a huge double screw setup still today. It has an open top, so it is visible from the main road into town......visitors revel in the beauty of our giant "Poo Screw". Not really..

[@bekka4621]

Simon: mentions Alexandria Me: thinks about the library of Alexandria and the fire and then wants to fight someone

[@ManuTheGreat79]

Hi Simon. Do a video on measuring the earth by the French Revolution (Delambre and Méchain). Which would be the basis of the metric system.

[@robertotis5173]

The simple fact that you don’t take yourself too seriously makes you more so.

[@michaelk5007]

I'm a little confused about the 'purpose' of this channel; however, your team produces good work, deserves a pat on the back, and I will follow to see what comes.

[@mho...]

"Archimedes: more then just screwing up water" would have been a more fitting title on the thumbnail 😁

[@bfnfedboy2]

Not sure if this would be a mega or side project, but I'd like a video on the bi and tri planes of WW1. Maybe even a VS video? Thanks!

[@BabyMakR]

He 're-discovered' the odometer. They were used by the Egyptians in the construction of the Great Pyramids, long before Archimedes

[@garethtudor836]

"Don't disturb my circles!"

[@JanjayTrollface]

Myth Busters is about as scientific as scientology.

[@cobeer1768]

Yay! A complete video!

[@TheCiroth]

Hang on, Simon said that Archimedes was taught by the father of Geometry in the third century BCE. The Pyramids were old even then. Now, if they didn't have Geometry, how did they make the Pyramids? Much less with the precise 1-degree angles on the Great Pyramids. Things we take for granted were needed that Archimedes invented or was invented around his time. Things that cause you to scratch your head and go hmmm, things don't add up here

[@stevek5988]

Blame the writers. Simon usually does.

[@TheMr77469]

What was the music used at 11:23- 11:28?

[@donaldkaspersen3768]

I reaad that an ottoman translation of Archimedes writings suggest that he was using calculus for his own personal use.

[@troyclayton]

Archimedes' Principle is a huge deal and shouldn't have been shunted to the end of the video after the stupid mirror crud.