Enlightenment (Part II)

[@courtneylee1680]

Love this channel. I'm working on my bachelor's in history, and these lectures are a great study tool to use when I need a break from the books.

[@clawpuss2]

Big thanks Ryan, from London, England, I absolutely love your work. Keep it up

[@randallcurtis7134]

Enjoy your lectures so much ... Many people miss the real, lasting importance of the theory of universal gravitation ... Whether or not 'gravity' is the correct explanation is beside the point ... The real issue is that Newton makes this bold statement that the same forces causing motion here on Earth are the same forces causing motion throughout the universe ... Thus 'universal' gravitation ... The really big ideas in science are the ones that expand not only the concepts of science, but the parts of space and time those concepts apply to ... You hint at that in your own discussion of how it was the overturning of the idea of 'perfection' throughout all parts of the solar system away from earth that was the 'big idea' at least philosophically n Kepler's new model of the solar system ... I appreciate you deep insights into the meaning of events ... JRC

[@skwbtm1]

If a man comes, and says, “I have now discovered an entirely new principle in religion;" I say, "I have no faith in what you are going to say. I have but one standard, and that is the Bible." But if he says, "I have an old Bible principle that I wish to evolve and demonstrate," then, with all the possible attention of my soul, I say, "Hear! hear!" William Talmage 1886

[@deconlite]

I would think the ancients might relate the innards of a sacrificed animal with say a disemboweled criminal's innards and conclude a more precise assessment of body functions other than the four humors. It has been a great benefit to listen to you lectures. thank you.

[@HebaruSan]

Ahh, Newton. It's like we suddenly learned to breathe.

[@blainem2258]

actually look into newton he was into esoteric / Hermetic Christianity . He translated the emerald tablet, wrote on Solomons temple, alchemy, astronomy....

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

This lecture is uncharacteristically full of errors and half truths.The reason Kuhn became popular is that he gave an excuse for pseudosciences like sociology and historicism (like Marx) to claim to be actual science. Pythagorians proposed a heliocentric system but Ptolemy had better data. The Copernican system did not fit the data and Galileo lied about the data. Tycho Brae's hybrid system fit the data best. The consensus now is that the earth does not revolve around the sun, but travels in a straight line on a space curved mostly by the sun. We are seeing the absurdity of this now as snowflakes taught by pseudoscientists ban free speech on campus. Have found most of your lectures excellent but when you touch on actual science (the accumulation of sciera, knowledge) you display ignorance. Since you think of a history of the love of Sophia (philosophy), I suggest you read Karl Popper. As to real science, "induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy" -Broad, or as Mr Spock said at the end of Amok Time "It may not be logical, but it is often true."