Top 10 Medieval Scientists

[@ViashinoWizard]

If I had a nickel for every time a guy named Bacon helped develop the scientific method, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird it happened twice.

[@einlan2506]

Bro, that frederick ll video needs to happen!

[@schylerreis5227]

Great video. I am stoked about the new channel. For future reference, scientists don't prove or disprove their hypotheses, the disprove or fail to disprove them.

[@ndre2561]

One point for refuting past claims, two points for introducing new ideas

[@NizzahonHistory]

lol

[@nickalasmontano1496]

Just want to say that this is a very interesting and informative video. Well done!

[@NizzahonHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MindGameArcade]

Was waiting for this one, this gonna be good

[@thrillhouse4151]

Dr. Expert hahaha love it! Great list!

[@basicpigeonbee]

Which medieval scientist was in the top 8 at the most grand prixs?

[@NizzahonHistory]

Albertus Magnus

[@MrCyberGal]

Top 10 writers would be cool too. (Honestly I just want you to talk about Christine de Pizan at some point)

[@joaomramalho1]

He’ll do 10 best European writers, but all from England as usual. lol

[@DJTM]

The church I grew up in was St Albert the Great. Knew it was because he was an intellectual but love to hear he clapped back at Aristotle.

[@Mattman993]

Hey, awesome video as always BUT neither I nor the others I watch with have heard of any specific Islamic scientists. Maybe a future video?

[@NizzahonHistory]

Yep, that could definitely happen

[@rainmakerscout2048]

Feeling really guilty laughing at the “drop a baby on an island and see what language they speak” experiment.

[@rfs8194]

Nobody expects the Barnacle Goose callback!

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

Great to see some due paid to some of the greatest inquisitive minds of the Middle Ages: the stereotype of an age of pretty much only ignorance and superstition is alas still too widespread among people not really into history.

[@NizzahonHistory]

So far, the main theme of this channel has been dispelling those ideas.

[@blabik]

This Bacon guy just peer-reviewed the whole ancient Greece..

[@lirangorgon]

Jacob, what is your academic backround? I know you studied in Israel and are most likely fluent in Hebrew (based on your cat's name). Most likely a PHD in something related tonjews in medival europe.

[@NizzahonHistory]

I would say proficient in Hebrew, not fluent. Other than that, though, you're right! My PhD is in History, and my dissertation was about Jewish converts to Christianity in the Middle Ages.

[@kaydenchapman3094]

Many more interesting characters that I never knew of

[@MindGameArcade]

Al-Khwarizmi and Fibonacci didn't make the list, so now you gotta make a top 10 Medieval Mathematicians!

[@NizzahonHistory]

I intentionally excluded scientists from the Islamic world, but you're right that I definitely could have included Fibonacci.

[@MindGameArcade]

@@NizzahonHistory Oh yeah missed that bit, it was obviously medieval europe, my bad

[@איתןשי]

@@joaomramalho1 I imagine that he will make another video about medieval scientists from the Islamic world - the reason he excluded them was that the Islamic world was much more advanced in that era... For that reason he also excluded medieval Chinese scientists

[@stevenleslie8557]

True, this list seems to be weighted towards medicine.

[@stevenleslie8557]

No Leonardo? Because he was Renaissance?

[@Belteshazzar_Antalan]

Top 10 philosophers would be an interesting idea?

[@NizzahonHistory]

Yep! I will do it at some point.

[@joaomramalho1]

Yes but all non Islamic philosophers, and preferably all English so that the myth of Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism can be perpetuated. Lol

[@mikaelramsay2094]

Pope Sylvester II introduced our numeral system first, but Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe. And guess who helped him with that? Frederick II who employed Fibonacci.

[@nickbalmes6640]

1:30 AM and KZbin notified me for this? I'm not even mad :)

[@georgem7502]

I think geese growing from trees is such a cool idea; when I was a child I believed that wasps grew from little buds on trees and I’m kinda mad at evolution for not giving us any irl animals coming from plants.... mind, something like the life cycle of frogs is pretty nuts so there is that

[@NizzahonHistory]

Then you might be interested in the 20 minute video I did on barnacle geese!

[@jordancourtney9142]

I find it rather interesting how the science of the times were almost misguided in nature, like they were able to advance our understandings of many different things, but were still caught up in a rather messy primitive ethics in comparison to modern science

[@rafaelgaiarsa6448]

Nizz this was great but next time could you keep the names of the people and topics you're talking about on screen? Sometimes I won't be that interested and just be looking at my phone or smth and you'll say something real interesting and I'll look up and go "who?" And need to rewind.

[@PlasticSiding]

Great video, I really like the stuff you put out that helps dispel myths about the medieval era being a bunch of idiots doing nothing until the renaissance.

[@PlasticSiding]

@@joaomramalho1 Al-Andalus was on the european continent so I don't know how that is a myth, also Al-Andalus impacted a ton of european politics, trade, religion, and warfare. It's a strange position to take that the conquering of the iberian penninsula is both not in europe and did not effect europe. Hell the invasion of islamic forces into France at the battle of tours defined a huge part of french and european history and AL-Andalus was a part of that battle.

[@scholasticschool3187]

Your vid is missing some great western European natural philosophers: William of Ockham, Jean Buridan, Nicholas of Cusa, and Nicole Oresme. William of Ockham is an English Franciscan. He received his education at Oxford University, but most of his scholarly life is spent across the English Channel. There, he develops a philosophical principle, which later is known as "Ockham's razor." Jean Buridan, furthermore, is a French priest who was the first to formulate the notion, called impetus, in physics. This idea was developed when he studied at the University of Paris. Moreover, Nicole Oresme is a Norman bishop who graduated from the University of Paris. He was presumably the first scholastic who assumed that the Earth was revolving and rotating. Lastly, Nicholas was a German bishop who paved the second step for a heliocentric model for the solar system. He obtained his knowledge from the University of Padua. All in all, these natural philosophers contributed to the Scientific Revolution to come.

[@scholasticschool3187]

My references: The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages (1996) by Edward Grant; God's Philosophers (2009) by James Hannam; The Beginnings of Western Science (1992) by David Lindberg.

[@cspeeds96]

Woooo

[@sshim950]

: )

[@MarkVrem]

Ok, I'm sorry when you got to Frederick the Second. I had to double-check the title to make sure it didn't read Worst 10 Medieval Scientists. AHH!! I wrote this before I got to his Jewish experiment. Redeemed himself to humanity!

[@joshhumphries8299]

How are there no Islamic or Sephardic Scientists included in this list? So ironic considering your otherwise treasure trove of knowledge. I've always assumed it as common knowledge that the Renaissance benefitted greatly from the sudden access to the Moorish and Hebrew Universities after the Moors and Jews were driven from Spain (inquisition).

[@NizzahonHistory]

I explain why I didn't talk about them in the intro.

[@Jelly_Juice2006]

He literally says why in the beginning open ur ears