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.

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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.

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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.

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It's hard to imagine just how much we have advanced in the last 100 years .. I keep asking "what Happened "

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‘Fear and lathing” alone is brilliant enough

[@randallmarsh446]

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 ???

[@jeanbalcaen1917]

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.

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[@davidburwell4218]

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

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@@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 ...

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@@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...

[@jeanbalcaen1917]

@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..

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The Eardstapa Any day now :)

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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 :)

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[@RyanLynch1]

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.

[@jmchez]

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.

[@ABurntMuffin]

it's a good thing we no longer kill arrogant, boastful heretics otherwise you'da been fucked m8.

[@anonanon2624]

It is still not okay to kill somebody because of their heresies but yeah

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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.

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[@yareps]

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.

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that could be a follow up video

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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. KZbin should give awards to videos like this and make them more accessible.

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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.

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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.

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[@puncheex2]

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.

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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.

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I always think Johannes Kepler gets seriously short-changed in these accounts, since he was the one who actually got the mathematics right.

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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.

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[@spikey2740]

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.

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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”.

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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.

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Alexander Bain ca 1840

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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.

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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.

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Love your videos. Learned more and actually understand it, better than school.

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Incredible content! I wish you could find more time dedicated to history of technology since ancient times. I especially would love to see you research on evolution of mills and gears since for me this topic blow my mind how little I knew about it and I still don't see full picture how we got with it to the Industrial Revolution which for me isn't anymore such a surprise.

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I really enjoyed the video, thank you. I have been struggling to get my head around the metal bar in the lathe going up and down is there any chance you could demonstrate that with a sphere and then a cube at the end of the bar? I don't have a lathe and my trials with a drill in a vice is not going well! Great KZbin channel, thank you I'm thourghly entertained & learning lots.

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so cool. i have a very vivid and distinct memory of going on school field trip to Houston Museum of Science in elementary school and seeing their pendulum there. It was marked by a huge circle dominoe like pieces and we got to watch one get knocked down

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[@Alorand]

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.

[@SuperShecky]

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?

[@Alorand]

@@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.

[@SuperShecky]

@@Alorand You realize you aren't helping out the Church's reputation here.

[@Alorand]

@@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.

[@SuperShecky]

@@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.

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👍enjoyed the lessons. Thanks

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I love how all this started once again with one guy looking at something and thinking "huh... that's weird."