Standing Stones & Fancy Fossils (feat. Ayliean MacDonald) - Objectivity 258

Ayliean MacDonald joins us to look at some mystery markings in the vaults at the Royal Society... More links below ↓↓↓
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[@hothi92]

"What's Celsius doing drawing rocks!?" I don't know why but that had me creasing up 🤣

[@hothi92]

@@NeungView What?

[@jkadoodle]

It had me gently folding up

[@MrPeterhe]

Could it be that Celsius wrote about standing stones in Hälsingland (old spelling Helsingland)?

[@fburton8]

I also creased. 😀

[@PhilBoswell]

At 1:53 you say "Doesn't say anything about giving them back" but if you look at 1:30 it clearly states at the bottom of the flyer that "[the goldsmiths] will Give their Note to restore them to the Owners upon Demand, after they are Coppied. And Honour-able Mention shall be made of their Name. Those that will sell them shall be thankfully paid". A rare slip, and now I'm second-guessing myself ;-)

[@Kaneanite]

Never let facts get in the way of a good story. 😆

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

At least that's a bit reassuring, but I still probably wouldn't trust someone who's asking for my gold coins.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Crazy that there was a cameo from Anders Celsius. I love how so much of science is scientists sending stuff to each other because they know someone else will appreciate it.

[@gabotron94]

Later known as Anders Centigrade

[@naota3k]

"From... temperature!" Made me laugh. Definitely wasn't expecting that haha.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

What's the guy from temperature doing drawing rocks?

[@egonmilanowski]

8:00 "Nature evolved coral twice" Crabs, "Am I a joke to you?"

[@miltonpound763]

I was just lamenting that hit had been a while since the last Objectivity video and bam this lands in my feed! 😍😍😍

[@adamplace1414]

No force on earth could get me to leave the Royal society archives if I ever got inside. This place is catnip for the curious.

[@buffviking2379]

I don't think Olavo is latin for Anders, but Anders Celsius had a cousin named Olof Celsius who was also a professor at Uppsala university. I can't read latin, maybe the letter explains that he was given something by his cousin?

[@IntelVoid]

He sketched some nonstandard runes with his uncle Olof in 1725.

[@jjkusaf]

Have always admired these types of drawings. Such detail (like those fossils)....granted I can just barely draw a stick figure.

[@mikaelkjericsson]

"Helsingland" is a historical province (no longer an existing administrative entity) in Sweden. In current spelling it is written "Hälsingland". It lies in the middle of Sweden, by the Baltic coast.

[@Oldfaithful61]

Jellyphantus bradyensis. Probably endemic to what is now Australia.

[@Daryl5765]

That lab book was the best part of an already good video.

[@VampireSquirrel]

I love translating ancient artifacts. 4:30 Is there a high quality scan of this image or do i have to visit the royal society myself?

[@KitagumaIgen]

The rune-stone that Celsius describe were from Hälsingland in the southern part of northern Sweden.

[@LedgerAndLace]

There must be a ledger somewhere documenting incoming specimens, drawings, etc. And all those books on the shelf . . . This was FASCINATING!

[@Philrc]

Hurray!! Another video

[@boredgrass]

Jelly Bradyi Periodicus🤗 A Jelly Brady merch? Totally buy that!

[@19TheChaosWarrior79]

I am so glad I found her channel. Her Sleepy STEM stories have genuinely helped me get to sleep when I've had a lot on my mind. I hope Dr Hannah Fry has heard her tribute episode

[@MisterTingles]

Wow, those stone rubbings were extraordinary. Shame no one knows quite what to do with them, they seem like a fascinating document, in a vault filled with fascinating documents :)

[@LordButtersI]

I desperately need a picture of a jellyphant

[@willemvandebeek]

Ha, I cannot wait to see the first fossil of the Brady-Haransaurus Australis. :)

[@scottpitner4298]

Fantastic artwork

[@myrrdyn]

at 6:02 the top writing looks like "questo è Grande quanto il Vero", literally "this is Big as the True" or basically "this is life-size" or something like that

[@mojosbigsticks]

I love that lab book. Can we have that in the Collection please?

[@DavidLindes]

8:59/9:06 - Ahh, the elusive jellyphant! Someone needs to do an artist rendering of what that might have looked like... :)

[@marcomagnani5029]

at 6:01 the writing on the vase is in Italian, it says "this is as big as the original"

[@tinyderppotato5410]

yay, Ayliean! I remember when you made a parker cube XD

[@cerealport2726]

Ediacara Fauna: soft bodied organisms from approximately 630 - 542 million years ago that were fossilised. Not that common, but found all over the world, and named after the Ediacara Hills in the state of South Australia.

[@zapfanzapfan]

So, that is where Gelifantus Bradyensis will be found :-)

[@leppeppel]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to see the avocado at 0:55

[@n20games52]

Let the hunt for the Jalliphant bagin!

[@peterkelley6344]

I've been asked to take over a AD&D campaign. Maybe a Jalliphant will show up. ....

[@SoleaGalilei]

Rocks are nature's archive. Very true!

[@GorduneDelaine]

spotting epona's song lol ♥ 💯

[@bloemundude]

@5:53 and @ 6:10, do we know what is written on the statues? Or what language? Some strange Iberian script or something?

[@_rlb]

I've asked for more Ayliean on Numberphile, but seeing her here on Objectivity is quite alright too!

[@labrana6974]

4:40 -> Looks like it could be etruscan? or some sort of iberian script? Actually impressed by the length of it.

[@labrana6974]

Apparently an Oscan-Umbrian inscription from Gubbio, from the Tabulae Iguvinae.

[@RalfHaring]

"From... temperature?" 😆

[@deliciousrose]

Yay, Ayliean! Interesting take, to see stone as nature's archive. Wonder if there would be technology to preserve information for millions of years other than carving it into stone. Also, that level of detail in the illustrations is amazing!

[@HermanVonPetri]

Imagine all of the information and culture that will be utterly lost to historians 1000 years from now because we only recorded it in digital form. For reference, the books in these archives are about 200 years old, but magnetic hard disk drives should lose about half their data after only 100 years even without physical damage.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Well, nothing is set in stone. Except for, of course, things that are literally set in stone.

[@toolebukk]

4:42 this is definitely some late viking age writing, I see nordic runes mixed with latin. I guess Norwegian vikings, given these were found in Britain. Someone probably already mentioned this in comments. I shall have a go at deciphering it.

[@IntelVoid]

The rubbing of the inscription looks to be Oscan (or something else using an old italic alphabet). In that case, it may have been the right way round in the first place.

[@social3ngin33rin]

omg the Zelda N64 reference lolol I can 100% see that!!!!

[@brandonwinstead7137]

"WHAT IS CELSIUS DOING DRAWING ROCKS?!"

[@cerealport2726]

Ediacara Fauna - fossils interpreted as being soft-bodied organisms. Named after the Ediacara Hills in South Australia.

[@Sevenigma777]

How many hearts did she just crush with that Zelda knowledge? Lol

[@xliquidflames]

Any new species needs a good latin name so what about Bradyensis Keithicus aka the jelephant? I know those latin suffixes have a specific meaning but I'm not a scientist. I just like the way it sounds.

[@clintongryke6887]

Ayliean, was that Professor Clarkson? (If so, the trilobite eye is the clue...)

[@fullerdb]

Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish) is over 36m long. A lot bigger, although much lighter, than an elephant. But it makes me believe a jellyphant is not implausible.

[@hugobouma]

3:21 wouldn't that just be _Helſingicis_ with the long S?

[@cannabudsguru]

Strange how bone isn't made out of jelly, but jelly is made out of bones. So a Jellyphant would be all bone, but not fossilise

[@Rubrickety]

That standing stone looks like something I, um… can’t put my finger on at the moment.

[@BillMSmith]

And you shouldn't.

[@aka5]

10:27 Keith is gutted

[@TrippLilley]

The Jelliphant is green.

[@mogadeet6857]

Avocado 🤣

[@WilliamWallace14051]

hmm, Brady the jelliphant?

[@allenfogarty2384]

I wonder what really happened to Hello Internet.

[@lebesnec]

The Bradysaurus rex

[@KipIngram]

Why would information on rock inscriptions need to be "classified"? Hopefully I'm just not interpreting that correctly. I mean, I guess they can't be "classified" in the security sense if you're about to open them up on a KZbin video.

[@landspide]

Dropping science bombs!

[@HectaSpyrit]

Man I want to see more of Ayliean, she's cool (I mean "jellyphant", come on)

[@ApprendreSansNecessite]

I recently watched the following video which debunks the popular idea that wearing gloves for handling books and artworks is recommended kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2S0oGN9pJ13d5Y (English subtitles are available). I found it very interesting and I highly recommend it. With this in mind I noticed that you were only wearing gloves some of the time, which now makes total sense to me, but also leaves me wondering why: since it popularises a misconception, why did you put them on in the first place; why is a gloved hand the "logo" of this channel; but also whether or not you have covered this topic on this channel in the past (it doesn't seem like it but I am not very good at searching videos on KZbin). I would be interested to know if there is a slight difference in policy between the Royal Society and the library of Versailles, or maybe even a difference of opinion. That would be interesting.

[@ApprendreSansNecessite]

@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I am not implying that anyone is mishandling archives on camera.

[@jared_bowden]

If you watch more videos on this channel you'll see that they generally don't wear gloves when handling books and I believe they've mentioned why on several videos: at least, they usually make a point to take them off.

[@ApprendreSansNecessite]

I would like to add that the gravity of the matter is not proportional with the length of my replies ;) I would simply be curious to hear Brady's take on this as a video maker (or Keith's as a librarian)

[@MichaelJM]

This isn't a particularly helpful comment, but I do remember watching one or two Objectivity videos where there is some discussion of the gloves. They were probably early in the series and I can't recall which ones. I feel like they are required for handling some artifacts at the library, but these are not necessarily paper documents.