@@MentalFloss How exciting! My partner and I are very happy to be getting back to "normal," albeit slowly. :~) I appreciate your work and never miss a video. All the best to you and your team!
Galileo's telescope design was different in that it used a negative focal length lens at the eye piece and provided a upright image not inverted as others "spy glasses" did.
A couple clarifications on Galileo: - He was friends with St. Charles Borromeo, who represented Galileo to the pope and espoused his cause to teach heliocentrism. However, Borromeo advised Galileo to be cautious in presenting his views because, while a large number of literati in the clergy and universities supported the his position, the regular faithful -- the vast majority of whom were uneducated at the time -- would be confused and suffer needless crises of faith. Galileo agreed (keep in mind this was before anyone had threatened him with anything at all) and for awhile even pope Urban VIII was a mild proponent of heliocentrism...until Galileo attacked the pope directly in his "World Systems" book. Urban was known to be easily offended and to overreact to things, so what really happened was that two popular stubborn intellectuals butted heads, except one was the pope and the other wasn't. - Galileo's trial was a mess. Church witnesses forged documents to make him look guilty; Galileo himself committed perjury before the court. Historians who study the case specifically tend to think it was viewed at the time as a kind of early mistrial, and that it was all too public since many people knew Galileo and many clergy supported his position, if not his having taught it definitively despite saying he wouldn't. He ended up with house arrest because he had been publicly disobedient, but also railroaded by the Inquisition, and both of those things were widely known. In the end it wasn't really a scientific dispute at all.
the Renaissance started more or less when the italians adopted the arabic numeral system and the zero, developing the first real monetary systems. that is what gave rise to financial growth that allowed for the massive influx of art and architecture etc.
Fun additional fact- Julius II, who created more Red Cardinals Hats than any other Pope in history to pay for his military campaigns, didn't pay Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel work. FR
I am wondering if the"glass slipper" from Cinderella will be corrected one day. The original story is believed to be from Italy, but the first published one was from the french author Perrault "Cendrillon" (french cendre = ashes, cendrillon = small ashes). The french version talk about "pantoufle de vair" which make sense. A vair is a squirrel from Russia with a wonderful grey white fur that was used only by rich people. So the slipper fabrik start to make sense. The Grimm brother heard or read the story in french (one of the language of the scholars of the period). Their are a lot of homonymes words in french and vair is the most prolific : vert (green) ver (worm) vers (toward) verre (glass) vair (fur from a squirrel) ver (verse). The grasp of french from the Grimm was not so good, therefore they understood glass and publish their Aschenpute story with the wrong fabrik. The english world took the german version of the story et voila, Disney is making shoes out of glass! For more offences see the how words villain and minion (mignon) travelled.
This should not be corrected because it is a work of fiction which has been improved (symbolically, figuratively, aestheticly) in its evolution from oral to written to edited to rewritten to embellished to cinematized and beyond. Glass slippers > fur slippers.
Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece Right down through the Middle Ages Planet earth kept going through changes And then the Renaissance came, and times continued to change Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades
A lot of historians will also say that the Renaissance literally didn't happen, the whole idea is just a dumb notion invented by Voltaire. Most of what we associate with it was already happening throughout the Middle Ages.
@@FreelanceTranslatorTips English speakers with a cursory understanding of Italian pronunciation assume penultimate stress in all cases, unaware of the great many exceptions to this "rule."
@@FreelanceTranslatorTips It's just a lot more common for 3+ syllable words in English to have the stress on the second syllable. We even do it if it's an extension of a shorter word where the stress is on the first syllable (see: PORTland vs. PortLANDia, or ALex vs. aLEXa)
There is a temple that I believe is either in India called Hoysaleswara temple which shows a fellow looking through a telescope to the constellations. This artwork is at least 900 years old, and likely older. Europeans seem to like to claim they invented everything when really my ancestors were in actuality thieves and imperials, or at least those who controlled their societies and their direction were, and the others followed for fear of persecution or social ostracization. Doesn't seem like much has changed, actually... source of telescope claim: ua-cam.com/video/TP246f1_oBE/v-deo.html
Another big myth worths mentioning is how renaissance is believed to host the rise of individualism. Also debatable is the understanding that in renaissance the image of man was that with rationality and bounded identity.
Interesting to me that the Renaissance & later the Enlightenment people so romanticized Ancient Greece that they chose to deny the actual source of their democratic values which was actually the Germanic tribes and their one man, one vote on all matters policy. That was literal democracy & not oligarchic like the ancients did it but sure, let’s continue to claim it came from a society we’d not begin to relate to in any way even if we wanted to. As for Machiavelli, if people would bother learning the history, even just barely around his lifespan and then read his other book, they’d know the meaning behind The Prince.
Bald ass are Cast...boy if the back's bald, gotta worry about them shaving off some of the front, and I'm not talking hairs. More things near some igliones which I just have to assume means third eye glands because Latin.
PS Something about that unfortunate Piero guy at 8:23 kinda reminds me of our host here visually... though maybe in a different phase of life, past or future, who knows, hopefully not unfortunate. (The chin dimple on the portrait should go lower-or just maybe not have the chin be quite so low since wow the more I look at it the more unnatural it looks paired with the rest of those features, like they were trying to Buzz Lightyear the guy in a buzz-free era.)
• 0:17 - Um, Giotto painted nipples on the Virgin Mary. 🤨 (It's more obvious at lower-resolutions or smaller video sizes.) • 1:19 - Some say, the Renaissance continues to this day… (but they're wrong; *cough*TikTok*cough* ¬_¬)
@@JoaoPessoa86 I've heard that too! Way too many times. I understand that you cannot expect everybody pronounce everything in every language to perfection. But an overly mispronounced word time and again starts to get annoying as years go by. Nowadays it is so easy to check out things beforehand!
@@LauraTenora "Nowadays it is so easy to check out things beforehand!" Yes, but if most of what you find has the incorrect pronunciation, you will keep pronouncing it incorrectly.
@@mattyt1961 You obviously haven't tried. Even Wikipedia shows the correct pronunciation (even using IPA symbols). Besides did you know that there are also Italian UA-cam channels, conducted by native Italian speakers? It's not rocket science!
For the love of God, please pronounce the “t” in words like Latin or button. It is so frigging annoying to hear a glottal stop rather than the consonant. Signed Old Fart who knows that everyone’s doing it now but is still annoyed.
I heard the Renaissance was fair.
NO. Just...NO.
I always enjoy these videos.
I especially like the change of scenery in this one and the color of Justin’s shirt!
Ha thank you! We're in for another change soon, as we've started up shooting in the studio again!
@@MentalFloss How exciting! My partner and I are very happy to be getting back to "normal," albeit slowly. :~)
I appreciate your work and never miss a video. All the best to you and your team!
"and yet it moves" may have been apocryphal but Galileo's middle finger is on display in his museum in Florence
Yes! Obligatory link, it's #5 on this list: ua-cam.com/video/HvZVkMsaJJw/v-deo.html
Who else knew about Machiavelli because of all the times OSP's Blue has gotten mad about people not getting him right?
Nah it was AC brotherhood for me
Galileo's telescope design was different in that it used a negative focal length
lens at the eye piece and provided a upright image not inverted as others
"spy glasses" did.
"The *Roman* inquisition?! I was expecting the *Spanish* inquisition!" -Galileo
LOL! Python's Law suggests this is impossible.
"NOBODY EXPECTS the Spanish inquisition!" "Poke her with the soft cushions!" "Bring out THE COMFY CHAIR!"
yes yes yes. That's all well and good, but can you please discuss the 'Johnny Mnemonic' poster on the wall.
Blasphemy and heresy are laws designed to protect bad ideas from intelligent questions.
Spain didn't hold the monopoly on inquisitions!
You were on Jeopardy tonight! Congratulations!
A couple clarifications on Galileo:
- He was friends with St. Charles Borromeo, who represented Galileo to the pope and espoused his cause to teach heliocentrism. However, Borromeo advised Galileo to be cautious in presenting his views because, while a large number of literati in the clergy and universities supported the his position, the regular faithful -- the vast majority of whom were uneducated at the time -- would be confused and suffer needless crises of faith. Galileo agreed (keep in mind this was before anyone had threatened him with anything at all) and for awhile even pope Urban VIII was a mild proponent of heliocentrism...until Galileo attacked the pope directly in his "World Systems" book. Urban was known to be easily offended and to overreact to things, so what really happened was that two popular stubborn intellectuals butted heads, except one was the pope and the other wasn't.
- Galileo's trial was a mess. Church witnesses forged documents to make him look guilty; Galileo himself committed perjury before the court. Historians who study the case specifically tend to think it was viewed at the time as a kind of early mistrial, and that it was all too public since many people knew Galileo and many clergy supported his position, if not his having taught it definitively despite saying he wouldn't. He ended up with house arrest because he had been publicly disobedient, but also railroaded by the Inquisition, and both of those things were widely known. In the end it wasn't really a scientific dispute at all.
But they did have talking teenage turtles during the renaissance
the Renaissance started more or less when the italians adopted the arabic numeral system and the zero, developing the first real monetary systems. that is what gave rise to financial growth that allowed for the massive influx of art and architecture etc.
Fun additional fact- Julius II, who created more Red Cardinals Hats than any other Pope in history to pay for his military campaigns, didn't pay Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel work. FR
I am not a painter
-Michelangelo
Points for the Johnny Mnemonic poster behind you.
That's the first thing that I noticed!
I am wondering if the"glass slipper" from Cinderella will be corrected one day. The original story is believed to be from Italy, but the first published one was from the french author Perrault "Cendrillon" (french cendre = ashes, cendrillon = small ashes). The french version talk about "pantoufle de vair" which make sense. A vair is a squirrel from Russia with a wonderful grey white fur that was used only by rich people. So the slipper fabrik start to make sense. The Grimm brother heard or read the story in french (one of the language of the scholars of the period). Their are a lot of homonymes words in french and vair is the most prolific : vert (green) ver (worm) vers (toward) verre (glass) vair (fur from a squirrel) ver (verse). The grasp of french from the Grimm was not so good, therefore they understood glass and publish their Aschenpute story with the wrong fabrik. The english world took the german version of the story et voila, Disney is making shoes out of glass!
For more offences see the how words villain and minion (mignon) travelled.
This should not be corrected because it is a work of fiction which has been improved (symbolically, figuratively, aestheticly) in its evolution from oral to written to edited to rewritten to embellished to cinematized and beyond. Glass slippers > fur slippers.
Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
Right down through the Middle Ages
Planet earth kept going through changes
And then the Renaissance came, and times continued to change
Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades
Is that a Johnny Mnemonic poster on the wall?
Wait but Aristotle wasn't Roman (right?)
A misconception? Like Dan Brown being a good author?
A lot of historians will also say that the Renaissance literally didn't happen, the whole idea is just a dumb notion invented by Voltaire. Most of what we associate with it was already happening throughout the Middle Ages.
Doesn’t the Renaissance require the Black Death first
I've mostly heard "Medici" with emphasis on the first syllable. Kind of like: MAY-dee-chee
Yes in Italian the emphasis is on the first syllable. Not sure why English speakers moved it to the second.
@@FreelanceTranslatorTips English speakers with a cursory understanding of Italian pronunciation assume penultimate stress in all cases, unaware of the great many exceptions to this "rule."
@@FreelanceTranslatorTips It's just a lot more common for 3+ syllable words in English to have the stress on the second syllable. We even do it if it's an extension of a shorter word where the stress is on the first syllable (see: PORTland vs. PortLANDia, or ALex vs. aLEXa)
Didn't Galileo covertly mock a church official in one off his earlier writings?
Really hard to pronounce "-gli-" ? It's like "ll" in Spanish (paella)
The renaissance was just the middle ages as experienced everywhere else in the 3 contiguous continents but Europe finally arriving in Europe.
There is a temple that I believe is either in India called Hoysaleswara temple which shows a fellow looking through a telescope to the constellations. This artwork is at least 900 years old, and likely older.
Europeans seem to like to claim they invented everything when really my ancestors were in actuality thieves and imperials, or at least those who controlled their societies and their direction were, and the others followed for fear of persecution or social ostracization. Doesn't seem like much has changed, actually...
source of telescope claim: ua-cam.com/video/TP246f1_oBE/v-deo.html
Another big myth worths mentioning is how renaissance is believed to host the rise of individualism. Also debatable is the understanding that in renaissance the image of man was that with rationality and bounded identity.
What are the chances i tried to learn about this and you just uploaded this
The bonus misconception: Anger Doubleday did not invent baseball!
..since Abner Doubleday........WHAT? Oh, a bonus misconception, seamhead rant aborted.
i have bad dyslexia and thought this video was about menopause
Interesting to me that the Renaissance & later the Enlightenment people so romanticized Ancient Greece that they chose to deny the actual source of their democratic values which was actually the Germanic tribes and their one man, one vote on all matters policy. That was literal democracy & not oligarchic like the ancients did it but sure, let’s continue to claim it came from a society we’d not begin to relate to in any way even if we wanted to. As for Machiavelli, if people would bother learning the history, even just barely around his lifespan and then read his other book, they’d know the meaning behind The Prince.
but germanic tribes aren't as sexy as ancient greeks ):
@@Franco18181 I can’t argue that.
The Mona Lisa was modelled after my mommy.
Bald ass are Cast...boy if the back's bald, gotta worry about them shaving off some of the front, and I'm not talking hairs. More things near some igliones which I just have to assume means third eye glands because Latin.
PS Something about that unfortunate Piero guy at 8:23 kinda reminds me of our host here visually... though maybe in a different phase of life, past or future, who knows, hopefully not unfortunate. (The chin dimple on the portrait should go lower-or just maybe not have the chin be quite so low since wow the more I look at it the more unnatural it looks paired with the rest of those features, like they were trying to Buzz Lightyear the guy in a buzz-free era.)
Of course people in florence didn't talk in englisch witheth morre T's
Uh yeah the painting lady is my gramma make me famous
Origin of the Ninja Turtles. Obviously.
• 0:17 - Um, Giotto painted nipples on the Virgin Mary. 🤨 (It's more obvious at lower-resolutions or smaller video sizes.)
• 1:19 - Some say, the Renaissance continues to this day… (but they're wrong; *cough*TikTok*cough* ¬_¬)
For someone supposedly debunking myths you sure stuck you foot in your mouth saying that Doubleday invented baseball.
That was actually meant to be a joke/easter egg, but I agree the way we edited it made it unclear.
Will you anglosaxons ever learn that it's pronounced MEH-di- chee? Years go by, and you still don't get it. MEH-di-chee, capisci?
Could be worse, they could be saying "Mee Dee See"
@@JoaoPessoa86 I've heard that too! Way too many times. I understand that you cannot expect everybody pronounce everything in every language to perfection. But an overly mispronounced word time and again starts to get annoying as years go by. Nowadays it is so easy to check out things beforehand!
@@LauraTenora "Nowadays it is so easy to check out things beforehand!"
Yes, but if most of what you find has the incorrect pronunciation, you will keep pronouncing it incorrectly.
@@mattyt1961 You obviously haven't tried. Even Wikipedia shows the correct pronunciation (even using IPA symbols). Besides did you know that there are also Italian UA-cam channels, conducted by native Italian speakers? It's not rocket science!
ua-cam.com/video/IIRFcFtCP78/v-deo.html
I thought it was discovered that the Mona Lisa turned out to be a boring-ass portrait of who-gives-a-shit.
Renaissance didn't happen. #CrashCourse
First comment let’s go
For the love of God, please pronounce the “t” in words like Latin or button. It is so frigging annoying to hear a glottal stop rather than the consonant. Signed Old Fart who knows that everyone’s doing it now but is still annoyed.
It’s regional diction, not age.