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King Ming Lam
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How the Catholic Church infiltrated China using science | The Jesuit mission to China
In the midst of the Protestant Reformation, a group of devout Catholics gathered, and they formed the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, in 1540. Their aim? To revive Catholicism in Europe and spread Christianity around the world. China was one of their targets. They wanted to spread Christianity to this ancient Empire. But there was a problem - China did not welcome foreigners, and the Chinese authorities restricted the movement of foreigners into the country.
After many years of failures, they finally found a strategy to solve this. In 1613, the head of the Jesuit China mission, Niccolò Longobardo, sent his confrère Nicolas Trigault to Europe to recruit new Jesuits skilled in astronomy and mathematics. When Trigault returned to China, he brought with him a number of outstanding mathematicians and scientists, including the German Johann Adam Schall von Bell, the Bohemian Wenceslaus Pantaleon Kirwitzer and the Swiss Johannes Schreck. Schreck in particular was a friend of Galileo, and would later have correspondence with Kepler. They were tasked to implement a strategy pioneered by their senior Italian confrère Matteo Ricci… What followed might sound like comedy, but it’s 100% real history.
Major sources of information:
[1] Huff, Toby E. Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge University Press.
[2] Brockey, Liam Matthew. Journey to the East. Harvard University Press.
[3] Standaert, Nicolas. Handbook of Christianity in China: 635 - 1800. Brill Academic Publishers.
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After many years of failures, they finally found a strategy to solve this. In 1613, the head of the Jesuit China mission, Niccolò Longobardo, sent his confrère Nicolas Trigault to Europe to recruit new Jesuits skilled in astronomy and mathematics. When Trigault returned to China, he brought with him a number of outstanding mathematicians and scientists, including the German Johann Adam Schall von Bell, the Bohemian Wenceslaus Pantaleon Kirwitzer and the Swiss Johannes Schreck. Schreck in particular was a friend of Galileo, and would later have correspondence with Kepler. They were tasked to implement a strategy pioneered by their senior Italian confrère Matteo Ricci… What followed might sound like comedy, but it’s 100% real history.
Major sources of information:
[1] Huff, Toby E. Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge University Press.
[2] Brockey, Liam Matthew. Journey to the East. Harvard University Press.
[3] Standaert, Nicolas. Handbook of Christianity in China: 635 - 1800. Brill Academic Publishers.
Where to leave a tip to support my work:
via Ko-fi:
ko-fi.com/kingminglam
via PayPal:
paypal.me/kingminglam
#history #science #christianity
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Dutch & German dialogue that sounds like English
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Germanic languages share a common ancestor and are closely related. Normally, most of them are different enough that they’re not mutually intelligible. But is it possible to construct “universal” dialogues of Germanic languages that can be mutually understood by various Germanic languages? In this video I constructed an example. You will hear what it sounds like in various Germanic languages, n...
Melody that harmonises itself | A crab canon
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A crab canon (canon cancrizans) written by King Ming Lam - a piece of music that is played forwards and backwards at the same time. #original #music #piano
Styrian German...it's a part of South-East of Austria Da koide Winter is noh, a Schneesturm wird kumman. Kumm in mei woarmes Haus mei Freind. Willkumman! Kumm her, sing, taunz, iss und trink. Des is mei Plan. Wir hoben, Wosser, Bier und Müch frisch von der Kuah. Oh und a woarme Suppen
How about Afrikaans?
To be honest, this is why I have a much easier time learning Standard German (hochdeutsch) than when I had latin class in high school. Not as if I did badly in high school latin, but finding words that I could tell the meaning from without a translation list or from equating a word to an English word was few and far between. Mostly words that rate as a C1 or C2 on the cefer scale were words I could guess the meaning of. The small hurdle was being able to read SOV word order, but it was easier when I realized that Old English came from it.
18:05 German here. I'm pretty sure, that the original word for dance was laikana, derrived from old norse leikr, which means "to jump around" (It also has a few additional meanings). It's also misleading to say, that German has been influenced by nearby languages and using France as an example. The influence of French is severly limited and only boils down, to nearby lands in between the two mainlands, such as Belgium, to be the brainchild of this influence. Other then that, there is no noteable influence in Germany from French whatsoever.
Is there an equivalent for romance languages? Incorporating Romanian would be tricky but I’d like to see someone try.
I speak English, jeg snakker Norsk, yo hablo Español tambien. German and Dutch are next on my list. Dutch and Norwegian sound very similar. En flaske øl, takk.
It is very common to call beer “Bajer” in danish. Also “Æde” is a synonym of “spise” - just usually only used for animals.
I enjoyed the video very much, and the art adds lots of value to the video with little bits of comedy. Thanks for it. I hope to see this channel grow and be huge.
Thanks very much, I hope so too!
The sentence in Gothic Kalda wintrus ist nēƕa, snaiwsskura haban qimiþ. Qim in mein warms hus, mein frijond. Wiljaqiman! Qim hidrē liuþō jah plinsei, it jah drigk. Þata ist meina garēhsn. Weis habām watō, biur, jah friska miluk fram þizai kuh. Ō jah warm bruþ. 𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌰 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃 𐌹̈𐍃𐍄 𐌽𐌴𐍈𐌰, 𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌸. 𐌵𐌹𐌼 𐌹̈𐌽 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 𐌷𐌿𐍃, 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳. 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽! 𐌵𐌹𐌼 𐌷𐌹𐌳𐍂𐌴 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍉 𐌾𐌰𐌷 𐍀𐌻𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌴𐌹, 𐌹̈𐍄 𐌾𐌰𐌷 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺. 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 𐌹̈𐍃𐍄 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌷𐍃𐌽. 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌼 𐍅𐌰𐍄𐍉, 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐍂, 𐌾𐌰𐌷 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼 𐌸𐌹𐌶𐌰𐌹 𐌺𐌿𐌷. 𐍉 𐌾𐌰𐌷 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌼 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸.
On Dance: 1300, dauncen, "move the body or feet rhythmically to music," from Old French dancier (12c., Modern French danser), which is of unknown origin, perhaps from Low Frankish *dintjan and akin to Old Frisian dintje "tremble, quiver."
Listening to this late at night after a while was a bit disorienting I remember noticing this for the first time in Metal Gear Solid V, where one of the places the character goes is the Angola/Zaire Border Region in the mid 1980s, and the mercenaries you encounter there speak Afrikaans, which is based on Dutch, and I remember occasionally hearing soldiers speak and feeling like what was being said was familiar, but not quite, and not really understanding why I felt like I partially understood a language I had never heard before.
Incredible story and storytelling
I'm English and I understood practically all of the Frisian and low Saxon without even reading the text. Amazing
Very interesting, thanks!
As an American that lived in Germany for a couple years and became fluent, Dutch has alwaysss fascinated me. It’s weird having a strange feeling of hanging a very good idea what a group of strangers are talking about. Dutch has always sounded to me like a drunk American speaking German on the other side of a wall. 😂
0:17 i see where this could be a good example to show the similarity between the languages. But...... No Dutch person will invite even a friend in for food, let alone a wandering traveler. You will be made to make an appointment 6 Weeks in advance for a timeslot between lunch and supper. Do not expect to be fed, expect to be out the door between 4 and 5 pm so the family can have dinner without guests. You'll get 1 watery recycled cup of tea (double dip) and if you are a very good friend of the family maybe a slice of leverworst (basically a butchered idea of paté, grainy blended liver paste and pigfat boiled in a plastic casing) Good luck in the cold snowstorm, we'll be enjoying the soup milk and beer by ourselves Also,.. don't expect any singing and dancing. Break out the music and within mere minutes there'll be a knock on the door: Zet die kanker herrie uit teringmongool! (Turn off that cancer noise tuberculosis downsyndromite) Yeah i see you thinking: we are a warm and fun bunch.
Yeah guess where english is coming from.
The German version sounds so much less enthusiastic than all the other versions. I guess that's part of the language ;)
I’m curious if you could learn all the Germanic languages by comparative learning .
i cant believe Ongzellig made dutch people
I know the youtube provides no incentive for quality content. Thank you for making this dignified, entertaining, and educational content. Not enough people like you make videos. Thank you for your effort.
Thanks very much! :)
i know a bit of german and was pretty confused when the northern germanic languages were all drinking water, oil, and milk fresh from the cow
The Germanic and French examples are not only a good representation of their place of origin from a linguistic point of view, but also from a cultural point of view
All the languages seem close to each other but English seems to be the outsider. Wonder what caused it to transform more away from the others.
I feel like a Scots version would sound closer to the other Germanic languages
That first part feels weirdly sinister: like an instructional video for wicked trolls or fairies trying to lure unwary backpackers in Northern Europe to their deaths. I keep waiting for the part where he says "Und then, once you hab lured the human into your haus mitt zis multi-lingual spiel I hab shown you, zimply shove them into dein cauldron und simmer voor six to eight hours."
The Dutch speaker at the start sounded Irish and the Norwegian and Icelandic speakers sounded Scottish
A story of how superstition in whatever form is destructive to shared prosperity
It looks like Swedish also doesn't have a future tense like in Old Norse, but still uses the present tense to talk about the future. It was 'kommer' in the dialogue instead of some version of 'will come' like in the other languages.
Engelsaxisch version: þe kalde Winter is naȝh, an Snawstorm wirþ komen. Kom in mein warme Huus, mein Friend. Welkomme! Kom hider, sing and dans (salte), ette and drinke. Þat is mein Plan. Wiȝ habeþ Water, Bier, and Melk fresch of þer Kuu. Oh, and warme Suppe! With native characters: þe kalꝺe Winteꞃ is naȝh, an Snawꞅtoꞃm wiꞃþ komen. Kom in mein waꞃme Huus, mein Fꞃienꝺ. Welkomme! Kom hiꝺeꞃ, sing ⁊ ꝺans (salte), ette ⁊ ꝺꞃinke. Þat is mein Plan. Wiȝ habeþ Wateꞃ, Bieꞃ, ⁊ Melk ꝼꞃeꞅch oꝼ þeꞃ Kuu. Oh, ⁊ waꞃme Suppe!
So little, these days, we learn about the heritage of our people…
once, in italy Germans ruled and they became popular so much so that people starting talking like them!!! Italian shares quite a few words from german. The LOngbards (Long beards) is how they are called
This is why English was originally Germanic
That French sentence at the end had me on the floor😂. Understanding modern English as the result of German peasants ruled over by French nobility is such a lightbulb moment
A little bit disingenuous this because some phrases and vocabulary are much closer than others. These example sentences have been carefully chosen because the Dutch is very close to English and we can understand them but there are many other sentences we could choose which do not look or sound so similar. For example : *Heb je al die vuile was gewassen?*
Dutch universal just sounds like a heavily congested Minnesotan.
This was and is so enlightening, enjoyable and amusing! Brilliant!
Icelandic has in fact evolved much less than Norwegian. A text from Norway written in the 1200s concerning the ‘Strandar Strengleikr’ (‘The Lay of the Beach’) is practically untranslatable using modern Norwegian as a guide, yet it is immediately readable using Icelandic vocabulary. What this tells us is that Norwegian has undergone drastic changes since the 13th century, whereas Icelandic has not. As Icelandic is the closest living language to Old Norse, this suggests not a divergence, but a convergence, of Germanic languages during the past 700 years. A clear example of the process is the standardisation of Danish following the invention of printing and the political effects of the Reformation. As a consequence, Danish dialects have disappeared and the standardised language has not only rationalised its cases as English has, but it has gone further in simplifying verb conjugation to the extent that Danish verbs are invariable to person.
As a native French speaker, I get a similar feeling with Haïtian Creole. I catch bits and pieces of what is being said, sometimes enough to understand that they're using words I wouldn't have used in that way but while still understanding their meaning. It can be quite fascinating to listen to. 🙂
and quebec?
@@fredengels8188 Je suis francophone Québécois.
Ok new plan, fuck French, fuck Spanish, I’m hella learning Dutch next, shits gonna be easy af
Actually on second thought, school French may have left me enough to work with to actually try to acquire the language for real after all
Best ASMR video✌️
I wanna know where you got the water and beer cows in particular
I would have liked to have heard the phrase in Yiddish.
You're videos are so underrated! I don't know why this isn't getting thousands of views. Also, could I know what software you use to produce these videos? I hope this doesn't come across as offensive but they feel like very well done powerpoints, providing the same value with less flashy editing. I would like make my videos like this!
Thanks very much! The hardest bit here was drawing the cartoons which I drew on the Procreate app on my iPad with an Apple Pencil, but of course you can use other tablets with digital pen. And then to put them together in the simple way I did you can use any video editing software like DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. No need to use the likes of After Effects for simple aminations like this.
@@lamkingming Amazing! Thanks
" Die koue Winter is naby, 'n sneeustorm sal kom. Kom in my warme huis my vriend. Welkom. Kom sing en dans, eet en drink... " That is Afrikaans.
It sounds like Pennsylvania Dutch (not actual Dutch, but bastardized German that the Amish use).
English speakers online: Haha Dutch sounds so funny, how is it a real language? My dude, that’s English’s cousin
You are on error. Not Dutch and German language sounds like Englisch but English language sounds like Dutch and German.
That’s so pedantic. Yes of course we all know English is based off these languages in large part, you didn’t need to um actually it like a pretentious ass hat
10:20 The modern German word for "Dance" is "Tanz"(noun) and "Tanzen"(verb).
It's insane how so much people saw your last video, but not this one. I hope you get more views, you're so underrated!