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Objectivity

Objectivity

4 жыл бұрын

We journey down to the vaults at The Royal Society to investigate how 17th Century scientists proposed we should travel to the Moon... More links below ↓↓↓
Featuring Keith Moore from The Royal Society speaking with Brady.
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@jebus6kryst
@jebus6kryst 4 жыл бұрын
3:33 "I don't mark things in books. I just remember." -Keith Moore
@TulioSounds
@TulioSounds 4 жыл бұрын
What a legend
@johnjesberger5676
@johnjesberger5676 3 жыл бұрын
Savage
@rif6876
@rif6876 4 жыл бұрын
Keith should read these books for audible.
@andie_pants
@andie_pants 4 жыл бұрын
6:58 My God... I've got tears. I want to go back in time and tell him just how _right_ he was.
@andie_pants
@andie_pants 4 жыл бұрын
If Elon Musk doesn't rename Starship to The Consolidator, I'm going to be hella upset.
@pats7699
@pats7699 4 жыл бұрын
He also got the distance between Earth and the moon right, with just about 10% error. (assuming 1 English Mile = 1.9 km)
@PassionPopsicle
@PassionPopsicle 4 жыл бұрын
grovermatic exactly! So, so moving. What a prediction to have made!
@Zack-xz1ph
@Zack-xz1ph 4 жыл бұрын
the little hand drawn in the margins is called a manicule and was quite common in those days, it even got included in unicode: ☞, ☜ . though it's a little small
@be1tube
@be1tube 4 жыл бұрын
In ASCII, no. But in Unicode, yes.
@pendlera2959
@pendlera2959 4 жыл бұрын
Why didn't they just use an arrow?
@Zack-xz1ph
@Zack-xz1ph 4 жыл бұрын
@@be1tube oh ok. I'll edit my comment
@Zack-xz1ph
@Zack-xz1ph 4 жыл бұрын
@@pendlera2959 I guess to make it stand out more, probably saved it for the really important parts. I'd like to get a stamp of one of the hand-drawn ones for my own books
@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-
@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- 4 жыл бұрын
I like finding books with little marks, highlights, stains or bends, as long as they're not obnoxious. It's another story to read.
@tncorgi92
@tncorgi92 4 жыл бұрын
Exactly. The book tells a story of its previous owner.
@user-ol2mr4bx7c
@user-ol2mr4bx7c 4 жыл бұрын
Please can we have a podcast of keith telling us things, reading and turning pages?
@Ethelgiggle
@Ethelgiggle 3 жыл бұрын
That would be the ultimate relaxing experience. Also I really like what he has to say, never thought I'd get exited about old books this much!
@CoolAsFreya
@CoolAsFreya 2 жыл бұрын
Just do a bunch of white gloves of destiny, and have Keith read the entirety of every paper and letter he pulls
@SchutzmarkeGMBH
@SchutzmarkeGMBH 4 жыл бұрын
1:09 "Hey how you doin Galileo? lemme whisper in your ear"
@Rabbit-the-One
@Rabbit-the-One 4 жыл бұрын
"It's free real estate"
@smaakjeks
@smaakjeks 4 жыл бұрын
There is an inescapable melancholy to be felt listening to the eager dreams of the thinkers of the past. How much they wanted to behold the moon up close, and how utterly out of reach it was for them. All the things we know now that would have blown their minds, yet they will never know it. And then I think of the things I will never see.
@SoleaGalilei
@SoleaGalilei 4 жыл бұрын
Beautifully said.
@jjbudinski8486
@jjbudinski8486 4 жыл бұрын
I hope that if time travel is possible people from the future will visit the great thinkers in their last days and show them the amazing things they have dreamt about.
@xGaLoSx
@xGaLoSx 4 жыл бұрын
I often day dream about going back in time with my phone loaded with amazing KZbin videos and exploding famous figures minds!
@smaakjeks
@smaakjeks 4 жыл бұрын
@@xGaLoSx *Famous dude:* "Why, look! This strange gentleman has a peculiar contraption in his hand that _lights up_ upon touch, yet without a living flame! Marvelous!" *You:* "Bro, we haven't even started."
@daveh3997
@daveh3997 4 жыл бұрын
3:39 On page 151 a hand and three exclamation points. That's got to be something seriously important.
@quintrankid8045
@quintrankid8045 4 жыл бұрын
@MichaelKingsfordGray Wow!!!!!!!!!
@lazyjackass77
@lazyjackass77 4 жыл бұрын
Justice for Wilkins!
@whatthefunction9140
@whatthefunction9140 4 жыл бұрын
As usual Keith is the real gem.
@RufftaMan
@RufftaMan 4 жыл бұрын
I put my vote in for a Wilkins probe! Or maybe call the first Starship from SpaceX to land on the Moon the "Wilkins". Should be able to carry enough luggage.
@ruben307
@ruben307 4 жыл бұрын
how can they mention all those hands to point to important passages but then ignore them.
@philipclapper268
@philipclapper268 4 жыл бұрын
Wow! This is really cool! Also, I had no idea that Gulliver's Travels was about the Royal Society
@blindleader42
@blindleader42 4 жыл бұрын
And everything else English.
@DavidB5501
@DavidB5501 4 жыл бұрын
It's a slight exaggeration. Only one of the four sections, the Voyage to Laputa, is really (in part) a satire on the RS. I vaguely recall that some of the Laputan scientists are engaged in trying to distil sunlight from cucumbers. Biofuel in the 18th century!
@OldBenOne
@OldBenOne 4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidB5501 Did they succeed?
@OldBenOne
@OldBenOne 4 жыл бұрын
@MichaelKingsfordGray Not without Watson's assistance. But back to the cucumbers, I could raise some funds with a kickstarter.....
@saltylad2107
@saltylad2107 4 жыл бұрын
Parliament putting you to sleep... Some things never change.
@krisweinschenker598
@krisweinschenker598 Жыл бұрын
The drawing of Kepler looking over Galileo shoulder is pretty cool.
@SonOfSofaman
@SonOfSofaman 2 жыл бұрын
Every episode I watch on this channel is better than the last one.
@joyflight8599
@joyflight8599 Жыл бұрын
I agree - even in random order
@xliquidflames
@xliquidflames 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds to me like Bishop John Wilkins was thinking about 300 years ahead of his time. Smart guy. He was writing about us. He says, "That it is possible for some of our _posterity_ to find a conveyance to this other world..." He's predicting the Apollo program way back in the 17th century. He nailed it. He talked about the acceleration, the lack of breathable atmosphere, the temperature, flight will need to be developed, it will make the people who do it famous, and so on. Just fascinating. He absolutely nailed it.
@vincentvanwyk5522
@vincentvanwyk5522 Жыл бұрын
He didn't realise that posterity would also lie and fake things like the moon landing. Very sad
@MrPictor
@MrPictor 4 жыл бұрын
I remember reading that Huygens speculated that there were many sailors on Jupiter because it had 4 moons.
@elonmush4793
@elonmush4793 4 жыл бұрын
The first people living on Mars will look back at us like we are looking back at Wilkins thinking about traveling to the moon. And as he was looking back at people before they could reach the new world.
@lzeph
@lzeph 4 жыл бұрын
6:41 I am always impressed by James' skills with the camera. Loved reading over Keith's shoulder here. Does James have his own channel? Or where can we see more of his work?
@lehpares
@lehpares 4 жыл бұрын
My new favorite channel! Beautiful videos.
@turpialito
@turpialito 4 жыл бұрын
Brill, Brady! Yet another awesome little gem. Thank you!
@steve1978ger
@steve1978ger 4 жыл бұрын
"To do commerce with the moon" people might have invoked several possibilities in a 17th century person , of which "selling them stuff" is only one.
@Dziaji
@Dziaji 2 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment of the year. To be honest, I would personally be much more interested in the alternative interpretation of the phrase. Making a dime is enjoyable and all, but it isn't everyday that one gets to... [REDACTED]
@Rabbit-the-One
@Rabbit-the-One 4 жыл бұрын
Again, WHY doesn't this channel have the same acclaim as Numberphile?!? This is just as amazing!! Yeah, apples to oranges, so I beg some liberty in the comparison, yet still.
@iagocasabiellgonzalez7807
@iagocasabiellgonzalez7807 4 жыл бұрын
Wilkins Base, that would be epic. The first Moon Base should be named in his honor.
@cyrilio
@cyrilio 4 жыл бұрын
These books are wonderfully fascinating
@ZeedijkMike
@ZeedijkMike 4 жыл бұрын
You guys are simply brilliant.
@graemelaubach3106
@graemelaubach3106 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant 😂 man was such a legend. Thank you Brady & Keith
@DerptyDerptyDUM
@DerptyDerptyDUM Жыл бұрын
The tiny hands with tiny fancy cuffs just made my whole week. 🤩
@martinperry1843
@martinperry1843 2 жыл бұрын
People should still use language like this to describe SpaceX. "An experimental exploration of construction methods for exploring celestial worlds and the premises behind transit thither."
@Stetofire
@Stetofire 4 жыл бұрын
Brady: Here's some moon history! Books: We live in a royal society
@HebaruSan
@HebaruSan 4 жыл бұрын
Brady's shirt is all possible ways of arranging three circles? Why?
@siarles
@siarles 4 жыл бұрын
It's a Numberphile shirt. They have a video on how many ways you can overlap a given number of circles.
@lorddenti958
@lorddenti958 4 жыл бұрын
Cause he's a nerd
@steve1978ger
@steve1978ger 4 жыл бұрын
because topology, baby
@Jerome...
@Jerome... 4 жыл бұрын
Nice! I was sad last night (this morning after sunrise) because the last Objectivity video was so long ago.
@DackxJaniels
@DackxJaniels 4 жыл бұрын
Why is "s" sometimes typed as "s", and sometimes "f" in these old books?
@comsubpac
@comsubpac 4 жыл бұрын
it's a 'long s' and not a 'round s'
@Cadwaladr
@Cadwaladr 4 жыл бұрын
That's called the "long s", you can read about it on Wikipedia. You might also be interested in the alternative form of r known as the "r rotunda".
@DackxJaniels
@DackxJaniels 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the replies. I would've googled it, but I didn't know how to phrase it for Google to understand.
@AaronOfMpls
@AaronOfMpls 4 жыл бұрын
@@DackxJaniels Yup. The long s (ſ) was uſed in the beginnings and middles of words, but not at the ends. In Engliſh, it fell out of uſe around 1790-1810, though it held on for decades more in handwriting. As for ſ's confuſion with f, I ſuppoſe it doeſn't help that ſome typefaces put a half-croſſbar nub on its left ſide. 😃
@TheRenegade...
@TheRenegade... 4 жыл бұрын
It's not an f, the stroke doesn't go through the vertical line.
@nab-rk4ob
@nab-rk4ob 4 жыл бұрын
What wonderful books.
@menachemsalomon
@menachemsalomon 4 жыл бұрын
Seems to me that the first book, like several of the great writers of hard science fiction, shows the "so near, yet just a bit off as to be so far" effect. Travel to the moon? Sure. Take along air and food. How far? Close enough. How fast? He could just barely fathom 1000 miles a day, which you can do in a car. He cannot conceive of an airplane doing that distance in two hours, or of spacecraft traveling that distance in less time than it took him to write that paragraph.
@robnorris4770
@robnorris4770 4 жыл бұрын
Emojis from the 17th century 👉
@TheChannelXY
@TheChannelXY 4 жыл бұрын
I love your content:)
@Dave_Sisson
@Dave_Sisson 4 жыл бұрын
There is already a Wilkins Aerodrome in Antarctica, although that is named after an Australian aviator rather than an English fantasist.
@awesomeawe
@awesomeawe 4 жыл бұрын
Please, write the books/objects titles in the description..
@EebstertheGreat
@EebstertheGreat 2 жыл бұрын
The "Ceres et Proserpina" circle is very interesting.
@Astronomater
@Astronomater 4 жыл бұрын
angry that I didn't get a notification for this video. I am a major loonie! It appears there might not be a copy there for Patrick Moore's Guide to the Moon or Craters of the Moon? I highly recommend both books.
@billyhendrix5544
@billyhendrix5544 4 жыл бұрын
I always imagine Keith and Brady hanging out 24/7 getting up to all sorts of mischief
@patricksanders858
@patricksanders858 2 жыл бұрын
The hands are called Manicles and are seen today as overhead signs for directions to somewhere, pointing the way.
@fugithegreat
@fugithegreat 4 жыл бұрын
I wish I could read that whole Wilkins book. Fascinating!
@SlyPearTree
@SlyPearTree 4 жыл бұрын
Me too, I hope it gets digitized. I'm also 100% behind naming a space ship, probe, rover, or mission after the man, a Lunar one would be best.
@SothoTK
@SothoTK 4 жыл бұрын
Well you can, it is already available online in digital form. Google Books has it (different format) and the ECHO - Cultural Heritage Online website provides a scan which seems to be from the same print run like the book shown here. Just use your favorite search engine and look for "a discovery of a new world".
@brendancarlton7326
@brendancarlton7326 4 жыл бұрын
I like this.
@hominid92
@hominid92 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe Wilkins could be a name for some part of the upcoming Artemis moon missions. Maybe they could name the habitat they are planing Wilkins.
@percsone
@percsone 2 жыл бұрын
so cool to see the flag floating in the wind on the moon
@apcolleen
@apcolleen 4 жыл бұрын
Lovely ensemble Keith. Striking tie. Though Id feel more at ease wearing what Brady wears.
@williamcollins4049
@williamcollins4049 4 жыл бұрын
We think, don't we, that we are the first to think? Wilkins was spot on wasn't he really? Thanks Keith and Brady William
@Yupppi
@Yupppi Жыл бұрын
The thing I'm always wondering is if these were printed or handmade books. Like just the title pages look like they should be printed with the layout. But then there's all the pictures and whatnot.
@Bibibosh
@Bibibosh 4 жыл бұрын
It’s been 3 weeks, why wasn’t I notified of these new videos!!!
@ObjectivityVideos
@ObjectivityVideos 4 жыл бұрын
You got notifications on? 🔔
@una_10bananas
@una_10bananas 4 жыл бұрын
I love Keith
@ComiXDude
@ComiXDude 4 жыл бұрын
i would definitely would want to read those books. does the royal society scans any of them ?
@Zack-xz1ph
@Zack-xz1ph 4 жыл бұрын
archive.0rg has lots of books from the 18th century and earlier
@juliusreiner5733
@juliusreiner5733 4 жыл бұрын
Please do Gulliver’s Travels!
@zeikjt
@zeikjt 4 жыл бұрын
2:04 Pareidolia at work or was that intentional??
@neruneri
@neruneri 3 жыл бұрын
That's wondrous. Goes to show that the advantage the modern person has over people of the past is foundational knowledge as an acccessible part of the public domain, but we are not superior in intellect. I'd like to think that three hundred years from now, our descendants will comb through old records and archives from the comfort of their spaceship or colony on another planet and be equally amazed at how rich our thoughts were with how to achieve further great things. I sincerely wish I could live to see the day when future generations lament the fact that Einstein was born in the wrong millenia, to see them discuss what Hawkings could have achieved if he had been born a millenia later.
@gazzaboo8461
@gazzaboo8461 4 жыл бұрын
The Men were indeed become famous, and the age also wherein he lives.. The Space Age, as it is now known. Prophetic indeed!
@KarlFarbman
@KarlFarbman 4 жыл бұрын
Great video!! Can't believe we haven't seen those books already. You MUST do a video on Gulliver's Travels now that we know it's a satire of the Royal Society!
@mulreay
@mulreay 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone know what T-Shirt Brady is wearing at 3:08 ? Thanks in advance
@Terri_MacKay
@Terri_MacKay 4 жыл бұрын
I believe it's available through the Numberphile channel. I know that it's a tie-in to one of their videos.
@brokentombot
@brokentombot 2 жыл бұрын
3:30 Keith is a Boss Bot confirmed.
@princeedmunddukeofedinburg
@princeedmunddukeofedinburg 4 жыл бұрын
Happy Halloween everyone🎃🎃🎃
@DeanGadberryYT
@DeanGadberryYT 4 жыл бұрын
Where did you get that shirt?!?! Too perfect!
@sujimtangerines
@sujimtangerines 4 жыл бұрын
I think it's a Numberphile shirt. That's another one of Brady's channels. Check the description on that channel.
@dennis7511
@dennis7511 3 жыл бұрын
1.11 the figure looking over the shoulder seems to have fangs.
@brucemckay6615
@brucemckay6615 4 жыл бұрын
I was alive in 1969... still quite young... but I was ‘there’... sort of... it’s like... I f you can imagine it... it could happen....
@helenaren
@helenaren 2 жыл бұрын
*Keith Moore*
@willd4686
@willd4686 2 жыл бұрын
Nice shirt
@praveenb9048
@praveenb9048 4 жыл бұрын
JFK, 1962 : "We choofe to make a paffage thither.."
@gokart6796354
@gokart6796354 4 жыл бұрын
Michael Stevens from Vsause please
@LePezzy66
@LePezzy66 4 жыл бұрын
I know what tattoo I want next
@flamencoprof
@flamencoprof 4 жыл бұрын
I used to be greatly irritated by annotations in library books, but I feel no inhibition against making them in books that I own. Collectors will just have to deal with it.
@bockminster7474
@bockminster7474 2 жыл бұрын
youtube needs to make it so you can double like a video
@Fawnarix
@Fawnarix 4 жыл бұрын
This is great science fiction fodder.
@Wordsnwood
@Wordsnwood 4 жыл бұрын
Here are some books that I suspect Brady would like to borrow from the Royal Society and read through from start to finish...
@DevilishScience
@DevilishScience 4 жыл бұрын
John Wilkins invented the Metric System
@kevinhanley3023
@kevinhanley3023 2 жыл бұрын
Go Wilkins!
@ObjectivityVideos
@ObjectivityVideos 4 жыл бұрын
On the future of Objectivity: www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/the-future-of-objectivity
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 3 жыл бұрын
And here hundreds of years later its still impossible for humans to travel beyond low earth orbit.
@jeffk8019
@jeffk8019 4 жыл бұрын
I vote for a Wilkins Probe!
@AceHardy
@AceHardy 4 жыл бұрын
📙💯
@tobiasthepious182
@tobiasthepious182 4 жыл бұрын
Wilkins probe!
@LA-MJ
@LA-MJ 4 жыл бұрын
Is that really how you are supposed to pronounce Huygens?
@mojosbigsticks
@mojosbigsticks 4 жыл бұрын
'...that they should look like men in gum elastic suits, that we may grapple with them..'
@minimalrho
@minimalrho 4 жыл бұрын
I thought this was going to be about the Icelandic books that are published on a full moon and then all the unsold ones are burned... :(
@patricksanders858
@patricksanders858 2 жыл бұрын
What will we be three hundred years from today?
@Dziaji
@Dziaji 2 жыл бұрын
People still believe the Apollo moon missions were real? Do they also believe that Santa followed them in his sleigh?
@RT710.
@RT710. 4 жыл бұрын
Humbling stuff
@sbryans123
@sbryans123 4 жыл бұрын
Third Forth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth ... Can we stop now???
@comsubpac
@comsubpac 4 жыл бұрын
just one more time! Please! Some people are not annoyed yet!
@sbryans123
@sbryans123 4 жыл бұрын
@@comsubpac lol
@omikronweapon
@omikronweapon 4 жыл бұрын
my annoyance has mostly been substituted for pity. At least for channels like Objectivity, I'd expect the viewers to have more sense than to think such pointless things matter.
@tncorgi92
@tncorgi92 4 жыл бұрын
They don't watch the videos, they're just pleading for someone to stroke their egos.
@hyekang3850
@hyekang3850 3 жыл бұрын
Georges Méliès 400 years ago !
@culwin
@culwin 4 жыл бұрын
Earth has detected you are using an ad blocker.
@karlkastor
@karlkastor 4 жыл бұрын
👈
@Cadwaladr
@Cadwaladr 4 жыл бұрын
Interesting that Defoe wrote of the flying machine being invented in China, because that's actually where rockets were first invented.
@Poisonjam7
@Poisonjam7 2 жыл бұрын
What’s with those weird “s” letters that look like lowercase f’s without the strikethrough? I’ve never seen those before… They’re pronouncing them like a regular s, but I saw words in there that actually have the regular s in them…so what gives??
@RuthvenMurgatroyd
@RuthvenMurgatroyd 10 ай бұрын
It's called a long s. It has an analogue in Greek actually, which has two letter 's's (or sigmas, rather). It was just thought to look better in different positions. You look up the rules for when the long s is written a short s or not. Fun fact: the integral is based off of the long s and it stands for sum because the integral is a sort of continuous sum.
@VampireSquirrel
@VampireSquirrel 3 жыл бұрын
thats a bit hot
@social3ngin33rin
@social3ngin33rin 4 жыл бұрын
No gloves to handle these?
@webchimp
@webchimp 4 жыл бұрын
They've mentioned in the past that you are more likely to damage fragile papers and books wearing gloves that without.
@gaylordpantamime
@gaylordpantamime 4 жыл бұрын
Keith is an alpha male in his natural habitat
@laserkei
@laserkei 4 жыл бұрын
I think that's a middle finger.
@wich1
@wich1 4 жыл бұрын
Second!
@golumq2461
@golumq2461 4 жыл бұрын
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