Scientific Revolution: Crash Course European History #12

[@MrTmac9k]

You *can* turn lead into gold, but (1) the process costs more than the gold is worth, and (2) the gold produced is radioactive.

[@robdave1974]

Tim McGaha True, I’m sick of people saying that it’s impossible. It’s a misnomer.

[@ephemeralvapor8064]

Well ... It's not like it stays (dangerously) radioactive forever ... Conversion efficiency is definitely the main delay for practical application. Alpha particle nuclear capture is fun, no doubt. :-p

[@Nightraven26]

I was just about to write this

[@knewledge8626]

Who cares, you could still sell it on eBay.

[@youliahadzhidimova5260]

@@knewledge8626 "the process costs more than the gold is worth"

[@STARTgaming100]

"worthless ancients" is the old timey "ok Boomer"

[@anmolagrawal5358]

True

[@realblackbetty2204]

Except the people screaming ok boomer can’t figure out what bathroom to pee in.

[@Ozzey23]

ChestyMD Ooo edgy. You must be a boomer

[@segundob7781]

@@realblackbetty2204 ok boomer

[@KennyHazy97]

​@@realblackbetty2204 No, they can and have, it's just that boomers for some reason think that they get to dictate which bathroom to use to everybody else.

[@collinbrode7981]

who else is watching this for a school assignment

[@rexthethoughtfult-rex4337]

I’m new to this series, but is John Green speaking SLOWER?!?!

[@aperson22222]

* more slowly

[@javiergonzalez7214]

@@aperson22222 You must be fun at parties

[@dannyp2970]

He stopped taking his adderal it seems.

[@davidsan9654]

I think somebody ate his soul

[@ephemeralvapor8064]

I had to speed up the playback speed as well.

[@flamedragon07]

I still think John Green has his humor it just subtle. It was funny the way he screamed and put down Yoric's skull. That was funny for me. John Green you're still funny to me. Keep up the wonderful work.

[@Roll587]

"That would be unlivable!" Yes. Yes it would be.

[@alexeifrederickflores4021]

WisMicYal11 yer that’s where we are.

[@Roll587]

@@alexeifrederickflores4021 ha, I know.

[@thomasjessop9144]

I want to say thank you so much John and the entire crash course team for making these

[@BerndKrannich]

Let me be the first to reiterate: "Knowledge is power, France is bacon!"

[@dielfonelletab8711]

The original from an 8 year old comment or reddit: When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is Power....Francis Bacon" I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon". For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". at 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand. It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.

[@jondonnelly3]

@@dielfonelletab8711 mmmmmm French bacon

[@luisvasquez812]

Power is power! -Cersei Lannister

[@thomasturner6980]

*scientific Revolution in Europe happens* Europe: well now time to conquer most of the world

[@vksepe]

Civ style upgrading

[@Tyrannitus]

I mean wouldnt you? :P

[@red-.-red]

Sadly a moral revolution was slow in catching up.

[@red-.-red]

@Harry Paul I know, but that doesn't somehow justify what the Europeans did or make it morally right. >Just the way the world worked And that way was savage and wrong, and payed no heed to human rights.

[@mm-ir1ii]

they were not the bad guys LOL ,just take a look at what the Belgians did to Congo , the Spanish to native Indians , the British to native Australians , the french to Algerians , just few examples , for you buddy , & that " jeudo Christian values are superior to any other culture " you clearly didn't watch the previous episodes of religious wars , watch haunting , & slavery

[@septic4089]

Anybody else forced to watch this for a quarantine project

[@InfinityFilms0]

you is corona

[@drea2487]

yep

[@r.s7733]

yeah

[@miranaumii]

*my social studies teacher comes into the chat and screams at everyone including me to watch it anyway ;-;*

[@tophtopherson8920]

The colour scheme of his shirt is so perfect for the backdrop, specifically the frames map on the wall

[@montyollie]

WOW I haven't watched Crash Course in many months. You have slowed down your speech DRAMATICALLY and it's amazing... so much easier to watch, so much easier to understand. I never understood why you spoke so fast in old videos. It was rattling. Well done in improving the lessons.

[@DaDunge]

You're missing some parts, Bruno did not only preach heliocentrism he also put down many of the same problems with the catholic church as Huss and Luther later would, those statements are what got him burned. And part of the reason the church reacted so badly to Galileo was because if he proved that Bruno had been right about one thing people may start thinking he had been right about some of the stuff the church felt more strongly about. Before Bruno the church had actually been quite supportive of the quest to understand the solar system, some popes had even advocated heliocentism themselves.

[@DaDunge]

@@DoubtfulCertainties Oh yeah now that you mention it Bruno did seek refuge with the protestants for a while. Well that actually gives even more reason why the papacy acted so strongly against him.

[@progidy7]

From "Sure, we'll fund you looking into that" to "Kepler, we're banning your book on planetary motion for 200 years". 🤦

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

In 1992 the Vatican accepted he was right, therefore, the church killed him because he teaching about the Universe was bad for the religion. They killed him for his scientific discoveries, not for ''not teaching well religion''. If not, why the vatican made the public apology in 1992? Nice try.

[@progidy7]

@@VeronicaGorositoMusic interestingly, Sungenis (famous *modern* Catholic geocentric theologist) just last night said at the 1hr mark of his livestream that he thinks that in the future the Roman Catholic Church will see through the "mist" of Newtonian physics and return to their previous position of condemning Galileo. 🤣

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

@@progidy7 and the point is?

[@goldflowergamer3139]

John sounds a lot less energetic... I’m not sure I like that.

[@harleyquinn5774]

Aging and fatherhood will do that to a person.

[@InfinityFilms0]

try 1.25 speed bromley

[@JaimeNyx15]

Shoutout to my man Giordano Bruno. He also advocated for the idea that all the stars in the sky were suns that had their own planets around them, and that they might foster life of their own. There's a very cool bronze statue of him in Rome, and he is honored with a bas-relief statue among the likes of Albert Einstein, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Isaac Newton as a father of space exploration in Russia's Cosmonaut Museum. RIP a true martyr of science.

[@Thunderwalker87]

Except that is a gross exaggeration... he thought the Earth was literally alive and had a soul... he thought there was a blending between divinity and humanity... and he thought that the Holy Spirit was that spirit of the universe/Earth... and that it was not divine... So... while he may of had other... beliefs... its not why he was tried/convicted/sentenced by the inquisition. At least that is what the facts show us. Because there were humanists who had similar ideas about other worlds, Earth not the center of the universe, and other beliefs who were witnesses at his trial to testify against him... The reason why speculation has crept into the matter is the copy of the formal accusations by the inquisition to the governor of Rome at that time has been lost to history... But the idea that he was burned for anything close to a modern view of the universe is abjectly laughable and makebelieve. Unless your globe of the Earth is also a symbol for the Holy Spirit and how all humanity share a common soul...

[@JaimeNyx15]

Thunderwalker87 You’re right that he had other beliefs besides his secular ones that probably contributed to his death, and he might not have been the first to think there were other planets and life in the stars (though I personally haven’t heard of anyone else who thought that at the time). But he was a strong advocate for these ideas, secular and mystical, and they did run counter to Catholic philosophy at the time. The point was he was a free-thinker whose religious AND secular ideas challenged the religious establishment, and he was killed for it. I still think he qualifies as a martyr for free thought, even if he wasn’t as secular as Galileo.

[@schwartzbrick]

Rene Descartes was born in 1596, not 1569. He was just shy of 54 when he died, not 81.

[@DaDunge]

Had he been 81 then we'd not be nearly as mad with Christina of Sweden.

[@19king14]

Someone ought do more research on Giordano Bruno. He was burned at the stake but NOT for teaching Copernicus' Heliocentric findings. Rather it was for not teaching the Trinity, transubstantiation and religious heresy.

[@herodotus945]

Correct. It seems harsh to us but for science the holy church executed no one.

[@19king14]

Copernicus' book still wasn't even banned at the time Bruno was burned.

[@herodotus945]

@@Madhattersinjeans just read footnotes at wikipedia.

[@Tfin]

"Religious heresy" needs to be expanded upon. It is too broad a phrase by far, and could include much science.

[@sendnomoreroses]

Yep, see Frances Yates’s “Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition”

[@jasonreynolds3903]

Galileo’s impact @ 5:46 Descartes @ 8:20 Newton @ 9:46

[@JWK1101]

Well you can transmute lead into gold, but it takes a nuclear reactor, and it's not worth the effort.

[@magnuspeacock5857]

I think a particle accelerator will do the trick too.

[@ithemba]

arguably even medieval alchemists had a understanding of trasmutation as a process of its own worth, half mysticism, half esoteric advancement of the self even, in which, excuse my platitude, "the route is the goal". So, one might say, with the scientific advancement having reached the point where we do know what you've stated, Alchemists somewhat came full circle. Basically scientific research in its own is "the philosophers stone".

[@JWK1101]

@@ithemba I like that way of looking at it.

[@DaDunge]

You'd need a fusion reactor actually, endothermic fusion mind you. You're probably a lot better of using a particle accelerator.

[@DaDunge]

@Shall NotWither Nah Mercury was important but it wasn't anywhere near abundant enough that turning it into gold would have been profitable.

[@parasaur2]

The solar system is like an onion? It has layers.

[@Monochromicornicopia]

Not perfectly concentric layers. Our solar system is not perfectly flat and the planets' orbits are not perfectly circular.

[@alpharho1354]

In 3-D presentation, yes!

[@Monochromicornicopia]

@@alpharho1354 That makes no sense

[@aerospacenews]

Such a good episode. Loved how it ended on the moon landings and tied in Galileo. Great job CC team!

[@ArwedMett]

These scientists deserve more than just an episode!

[@warriorscholar41]

They, and others, got a whole crash course series: the history of science. Go check it out.

[@ArwedMett]

nice :D

[@baymarin4456]

And CC Philosophy

[@es72742]

hi John, I watch you from Syria, Aleppo. You made a great impact on my life.. Thanks buddy

[@gwynbleidd5674]

What's the painting at 0:26? It's just beautiful how it portrays scientists as people who bringing light into the world, otherwise such a dark place.

[@TheDboi96]

This video is very well put together! A pleasure!

[@danielaherrera6434]

I just need to tell how much I enjoy these videos. Love you crashcourse ❤️

[@neversparky]

One important thing to note is that Descartes essentially (At least tried to) deduce his way to induction, which sets him apart from the ancients who essentially relied on chains of deduction to reach conclusions with no observation

[@aurorarising1945]

I dont even have an exam or school, i literally watch these just to see more of john green.

[@driftingmemories5737]

I love your work. Welcome back

[@duskydoit]

It's fitting that you used Yorick for the globe feature for this episode - Hamlet actually came up in an astrophysics class I took for the coolest reasons. When Tycho Brahe published his work on the 1572 supernova and its parallax being inconsistent with the "eternal universe" Aristotelian model followed by the Catholic Church, the "new star" is thought to have become something of a pop culture icon. Several modern scholars have argued that the "star that's westward from the pole" is Brahe's supernova, because Brahe's findings match Shakespeare's description. Either way, when you look at the 1586 portrait of Brahe and his noble ancestors, you'll notice two of the names - Rosenkrantz and Guldensteren - seem very familiar. Yorick, meet astrophysics.

[@Fermifire]

It's horrifying that people believe in a flat earth.

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

Is an episode on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth coming soon? In fact, I'd love to see a bit more focus on the parts of Europe east of the Holy Roman Empire

[@peterfriedman2830]

John, you really don't sound like you're in the best of health or spirits in this video, your voice sounds a bit deeper and lot creakier. You are undoubtedly an exceptionally important resource in the world of online video and although we might have no idea what's wrong, we all wholeheartedly wish you better in heart, mind, body and (just for completeness, purely metphorically? Or maybe even metaphysically?) soul.

[@bluzrx2k516]

Yo who got the awnsers 😭

[@FunkyHonkyCDXX]

8:47 Excellent shade thrown

[@jackrotz2139]

John I've always loved history and you seem to make even the boring bits entertaining, please dont ever stop. Wondering where the next video is, I need my fix :( And I would also like to comment that I would love to see crash course tackle art history Peace

[@andrewrollason4963]

Galileo? Galileo! Galileo? Galileo! Galileo? Galileo, figaro. Magnifico!

[@72PSI]

That was fantastic. Thank you for sharing. PEACE : )

[@Brandonhayhew]

Europeans history has never been boring and it's always been interesting.

[@lav1232]

european history it like a good action movie

[@RedbadofFrisia]

@Herbal Shaman what are you trying to say here? Can you be a little less esoteric.

[@therealchristian1]

1:42 except for that disease part, but that’s only a recent thing. Week 3 of social distancing wwwooooooo!

[@MarkJohnson-hw2xo]

Member of the 9th generation here and avid subscriber to this series (all of the Crash Course histories, really)

[@olimpiathomas-boniecka8646]

Let me start by expressing my continued admiration for the amazing work completed by the Crush Course. I am a long time fun and I use your videos both for teaching and for my own learning. You are amazing. It is the first time though that I take issue with some of the content and presentation of it. You are usually were fair and balanced and recognise the nuances of history and i am somehow surprised by this episode - especially it’s coverage of the relationship between scientific revolution and the Catholic Church. Let me start with things which are undeniably true: yes Galileo was trialed and ultimate arrested by the Church, yes one of the reasons was the disagreement on the heliocentric model, and yes Churched killed Bruno. As you correctly point out the investigation of the case by the Church lead to apologies. However what is missing from this narrative is all the nuance and instead it’s presented in the same conflict model, XIX century view of history with brave scientists using truth and reason to rebel against the superstition and power hungry church. That part is clearly unfair to what actually happen. Let’s start with the fact that majority of the people mentioned in the video were faithful catholics for their entire lives - including Galileo. Let’s comment on the fact that Copernicus was never persecuted or in trouble for his work. In fact his books were not under any attack from the church until much later and only due to the actions of Galileo. Let’s talk about the fact that Bruno was not persecuted because of his scientific views (he was in fact not a scientist but a mystic who misunderstood most of the science behind heliocentric - not that it’s ok for anybody to be persecuted for that but let’s not talk about him as martyr for science). What about the fact that in response to Galileo the representative of the church clearly stated that the issues with his model was just as much an issue of scientific evidence as it was of theology and that if those evidence can be provided church will have to rethink its interpretation of the scripture. How about we don’t talk about geocentric as church doctrine as it was not. And all that can be added to the fact they Descartes definitely didn’t come up with deductive reasoning. In fact most of the early modern grasp of logic was significantly inferior to scholastic logic - which can be seen in the later development of logic which returned to much of scholasticism in XX century. Apart from that - I love the series and I wish Poland was covered more.

[@adidevaneumiller436]

Wow Matt, that was thorough. Thanks.

[@g3i0r]

When people think that Columbus was laughed at for thinking the earth is round (which didn't happen), I think people just confuse that with the belief that the earth is the center of the universe (which did happen, although that conflict happend later).

[@knewledge8626]

Are you by any chance familiar with a KZbin channel called Knowing Better? I'm just asking because it sounds like you watched his Columbus video.

[@beedubb2653]

Lol, I'd like to blame today's technological advances for my short attention span, but I think it's just my curiosity pinging all over the place. That said, I love these crash course vids, because it's like consuming a lot of info in a bite sized format. Not to mention, it tends to answer enough of things I'm curious about, while allowing to be exposed to others that might not have crossed my radar...yet. Either way, if curious enough, I know I can look to expand my knowledge based on info taken from what I picked up here, so thanks for posting and keep up the good work.

[@manLiMarth]

I was looking forward to this one, but it was a letdown. To date the episodes have been well-researched, but there are many problems with the presentation given here that any intellectual historian could (and should) have pointed out. It's not only wrong details like Descartes' birthdate (1596) and omissions, like Descartes' massive contributions to math, mechanism, and ontology or the major reason for Bruno's death. Rather, there are broader conceptual failures, like the ideological freight of conceiving primarily of "the scientific revolution" as a response to religious orthodoxy (the term itself has been fiercely debated for 20-30 years now). This is simply not consistent with modern scholarship, and viewers are advised to correct and supplement their understanding with accessible resources like Lawrence M. Principe's "The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction" or Peter Dear's "Revolutionizing the Sciences."

[@dreamoftheendless7159]

John whooten "Inventing Science"

[@aidanvandussen5878]

Galileo was friends with the pope and had conversations with him, but when he published his book the arguments against his claim that he mentioned in the book were made by someone who’s name in Latin means “stupid,” and were near direct quotes from what the pope said to Galileo

[@ryanpowell9847]

The intro music no longer blows my ears off! :) Great vid!

[@numbklapz9159]

everyone please get crash course to 10million subscribers i've been watching for years and i think they deserve it

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

You don't win you do a little better each time Its history in a nutshell

[@rubricatusseneca5770]

I can understand the misconception with Alchemy, its a part of the hermetic tradition, something deliberately veiled in cryptic symbology and esoteric allegories. A lot of transmutation is really reference to proto-psychoanalytics (which is why Carl Jung was so invested in it) You arent actually turning lead to gold, your turning a "Base metal" into a "noble metal" through your own will power. A "base metal" is a easily corruptible undesirable metal rarely found in nature in raw form think copper penny's that oxidize pretty easily, a "noble metal" is one that maintains a raw absolute form in nature, is harder to corrupt, and more desirable. In hermetic philosophy, God is perceived to be "the all" (kind of like the atman) or all things and is believed to be perfect in the stoic sense. Meaning that God is unchanging and uncorruptable, for to be of perfect form means to not need to change for any change would be of lesser perfection. Hermetic also believe in striving to be as close to the all as possible thus meaning to exist the most genuine and uncorruptable state possible, the same as the stoics. Additionally the philosophers stone is symbolic of "the all" or the atman or God. In the sense that pursuing it grants immortality and enlightenment as well as ease in transmutation of previously said metals. To chase the philosophers stone is to chase the feeling of alignment with the universe(sort of like the Dao or the collective unconscious if you want to tie it back to Jung) Thus when referring to transmuting lead into gold through will, what is actually said is "you can control your own internal value and through willing to become less corruptible and more genuine you can become just that". Only you have the power to embrace internal negativity (like self hatred or self demeaning beliefs) but have the power to fight against those things in the pursuit of becoming gold(which would be a state of self content, self love, self acceptance etc.)

[@saulmunn3710]

"imagine a world where you have to choose between a set of facts and a set of 'alternate' facts..." hmmm...

[@michietn5391]

8:29 R Descartes, WHAT? no mention that he invented a mathematical/geometrical framework upon which to form the analytical tools for Newton and Leibniz?

[@JohnnyLodge2]

History of Science completely ignored LeMaitre even though his work is the basis for the origins of the universe sooo... sometimes they miss major players

[@DaDunge]

They didn't mention Leibniz at all, and barely mentioned him in the crash course history of science list.

[@rowshonnabi5158]

Mr John Green, where is your sense of humour that you once had? :(

[@annikathewitch3950]

8:50 “Imagine we lived in a world where there were facts but there was also a set of alternate facts and you had to chose between them”

[@rajnair4678]

Where had u gone for 2 weeks bro!!!?

[@rajnair4678]

@Gavin Zurcher like everyone is at ur mum's

[@miltonsgames1479]

I think you should do a Ctash Coutse on art and art history.

[@howlibertydies]

"Imagine a world where there are facts, but there are also 'alternate' facts, and you have to choose between your set of facts before you reach a conclusion" I don't have to imagine a world like that at all. He is literally describing religion.

[@rsr789]

"And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink, therefore I am." " ~Monty Python

[@benvictor3850]

NEVER STOP MAKING VIDEOS

[@radagastwiz]

References to History of Science (given), Philosophy (sure), and... Theater? Okay. Lights up.

[@JeepWranglerIslander]

And a perfectly timed reminder of the moon landing on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.

[@jmcosmos]

Yay! That was _Mike's_ Yorick! Glad to see that he's not having to "rest" between bookings.

[@caligjl]

Kings and dukes weren't funding scientists out of the goodness of their hearts; they were looking for an edge against their rivals. Better weaponry, better medicine, and better manufactures. Greenwich Observatory in London (among many other giant telescopes) was built to help solve a sea navigation problem.

[@herodotus945]

Is it any different today ?

[@caligjl]

@@herodotus945 Yes. World leaders today don't understand the benefits

[@Oxtocoatl13]

It was also a matter of prestige to have lots of smart people under your protection. Today science has morphed into a group effort and funding individual geniuses doesn't cut it anymore. Instead communities of researchers are being funded and commercially/militarily viable research always gets the lion's share of funding.

[@MelancholyCrypto]

Keep it up humanity. Optimism, science and making life better here on earth are the best.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Fun fact: The Scientific Revolution is a scientific revolution. *The more you know*

[@vhampyre01]

So you see, the puppy was a dog... but the industr... err, science... that was a revolution, my friend...

[@occonnerwilderness8923]

To change a metal into another one you add/subtract protons, we’ve done it before but it’s not stable

[@percy5595]

Happy to see Garcia da Orta’s work mentioned. I’m from one of the indigenous community he worked with :)

[@upcyclesarah7439]

8:48 crazy foreshadowing

[@rsr789]

It's actually NOT impossible to turn lead into gold and it has already been done in the modern age, HOWEVER it costs more money to do so than the price of gold, so it's futile.

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

I was in college, taking a class on the Reformation and Counter Reformation (history buffs take odd classes, folks!) when the formal announcement came that Galileo had been wronged by the church was made. We sat in class, watching this on CNN (I think it was CNN) and giggled our buts off as the Vatican officials admitted not only that they'd been mistake to charge Galileo with heresy, but that they'd been teaching Galileo for centuries at their schools and universities despite never formally clearing him of heresy. It was one of the most amusing afternoons I spent that year, watching grown men in black dresses trying to double-speak in multiple languages at once to excuse something for which they should have apologized before George Washington was born

[@julietmckaig3236]

John Green, did you just assume my age?

[@ethanrepublic]

Juliet McKaig yes, yes he did.

[@shaquilleoatmeal3703]

Did you just assume he was assuming?

[@Tfin]

Yes, he did. "11th? what? I'm nearly 10 years older than you, J."

[@thevirtualjonathan1284]

It's over 18, right?

[@xrellikgr]

I miss you from the past 😢

[@richardlamb2081]

Loving it, keep em coming

[@francescathomas3502]

Who is the artist and what is the title of the background painting seen at 14:24 thru 14:27 ? It's a gorgeous painting!! Thanks.

[@TheAustralianMapper5378]

4:54 one of these things is not like the other, one of things just doesn’t belong.

[@jamestang1227]

A reminder that the Church didn't punish Galileo for heliocentrism, he was punished for insulting the Pope in his book detailing the arguments of geocentrism and heliocentrism. In this book, he essentially strawmaned geocentrism and called the Pope and those believing in geocentrism an idiot basically. On top of that, Galileo was friends with the Pope and he allowed him to write that book as long as it was respectful to both sides of the argument, it wasn't. And on a final note, Galileo, while being more correct than the geocentric model, was still wrong about the solar system as he believed the planets' orbits were perfectly circular and didn't take into account the finings of Kepler which disproved that. This meant his model couldn't be proved by observation either.

[@timothytrudelle9245]

Alchemy is about self development and mastery of the way.

[@markfennell1167]

Great video. I especially like the concepts of observation, alternative fact, Doing your own research, and making your own conclusions. Those concepts summarize most of what I do in my scientific career. I always read original research. I look at how experiments were performed, equipment used, and the exact observations. I have found that in many cases the facts presented and texts and videos on a particular topic are not the same as the facts of the actual observations.

[@HeyThatsInteresting97]

8:45-8:56. Brilliance

[@daisybluegroff]

Fantastic visuals. Damn.

[@TheWizardOfTeaIsMe]

I am not a patron but maybe this comment will inspire one. Crashcourse Music Theory. Or maybe just music since music history is also very interesting. From how our system of notes works to chord notation and what chords work with what scales.

[@magister343]

Turning lead into gold is very much possible, so long as you are willing to spend far more than the gold is worth and don't mind the gold being radioactive and thus slowly decaying into other elements.

[@dereklush9399]

Pro tip: if you watch on 1.25 speed you get to listen to normal John, not weird slowed-down John

[@chrisgeggis5603]

The 60 minutes interview of John Green last night on CBS was as interesting as an episode of CrashCourse

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Cool video!

[@paulgibbons-keynotespeaker]

Outstanding!

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

Thank you for this

[@smilodonfatalis1123]

You guys should do an art history series next!

[@DaDunge]

7:48 It should be noted Francis Bacon did not believe in hypothesis driven natural philosophy but in empiric natural philosophy, he believed that the flaw of the field of metaphysics had been that it started out with preexisting notions and built on those instead of looking at reality. Bacon argued that the aimless gathering of data was the first step, then from that data you set up a hypothesis and which you then tested and if it did not check out you set up a new one and so on. Which is very different from how scientists today work, where you generally start with a hypothesis drawn on preexisting knowledge, exactly the thing Bacon said you shouldn't do, and then only gather data as it relates to your hypothesis. Of course the preexisting knowledge of today is more accurate and doing it Bacon's way is extremely time and resource consuming.

[@soph.e7246]

Excuse me Crash course but, if you don't mind, could you please do the revision thing you do at the end of the video, like, breaking the video into chapters? This was done in the Philosophy course and a few other courses. I would really love that, thank you.

[@mrfish1178]

10:26 me and the boys flying a flying saucer for the first time after raiding Area 51

[@LittleRockSix]

It took only 1000 years of religious and civil, city/nationstate wars, 2 world wars and a few inquisitions totaling a few hundred million dead to develop a modern society. 10/10 totally worth it.

[@pratik92]

1000 years is tiny blip in the history of humans

[@Vitalis94]

We spent millions of years evolving from mere "apes", and thousands of years just hunting and gathering stuff.

[@SamuelChac0n]

Pratik Kanthi i think modern society developed in spite of all that, not thanks to it

[@loganfrancel9275]

I love your show very much, jeep it up! :)

[@fritiofajvide404]

Please do an art history series!

[@crashcourse]

👀👀👀

[@nickstellar3782]

Dang that flat earth roast was smooth

[@aryanvora9379]

Neuton in 9:50 looks like ninja lol

[@parkmannate4154]

For the record, if you have a particle accelerator and sone spare electrons to shoot, you can turn lead into gold. Just not at scale

[@HumansOfVR]

*_AT LAST!_* the scientific revolution

[@AP-yx1mm]

I think you should have mentioned one important thing: Copernicus did his work before the Tridentine Council. So he didn’t finish burned but maybe not highly regarded either. The other ones were after the Council of Trent which is way they we’re burned.

[@rayceeya8659]

Hmmm facts and alternate facts that sounds familiar. Almost like a place I'm living in but starting to think I may not be able to live in much longer.

[@deinmaoremodu326]

I missed you, John Green!