Just had a test that covered Brunelleschi's architectural works, glad Scishow decided to cover him! You have made an architecture student very pleased.
We studied this in my Humanities class last year. It was my favorite ever class, with my favorite ever music teacher. Thanks, Mr Defoe for teaching me something interesting enough to be on scishow
you asked the question i've started to ask in the first 30 seconds of the video. it's nice to know that someones is asking that because i was starting to think that i was over-thinking things.
As a civil engineering major who took a bunch of architectural history classes, this made my day. Brunelleschi is my favorite architect/engineer and I totally freaked out when I saw this posted.
For me, this channel has gone from being a weird channel i subscribed to, just because of the fact that it was Hank, to being the most awesome and addictive channel in UA-cam for me! HURRAY! GOOD WORK HANK!
water was much to contaminated at the time so it was safer to drink beer or wine. could you please do an episode on the development of clean water in Europe?
"Taking the wine away completely was apparently not an option." Yeah not unless you want to get large numbers of medieval workers, really angry while they're carrying hammers and sharp implements. Not a good idea really.
So this comes out two weeks AFTER my exam on the Renaissance (laughed a bit when you mentioned his other failed contest entry)... Still totally sending this to my professor though!
@@MadameBerryGames lmao I think it's cool you replied I wasn't actually expecting that. I thought you might have ditched this account or forgot about it haha.
Hank, I find it ironic that you decided to talk about Brunelleschi's dome today. I learned about it in my Humanities class back in January and frankly...you made it much more interesting!!!
Hank, you are pretty fucking cool. I love how frequently you post too. Vsauce is good, but waiting a month or whatever for a new video is just ridiculous. Keep em coming!
I second this! Not that I'm in middle school, and I don't have kids in middle school, but I was there once and I know I would have loved this. The only cool learning videos I remember were Bill Nye and I was in high school by then.
In boring school of Architecture they never taught me anything like this of Brunelleschi, just passed him as another Renascence Architect, now I'm glad I know this guy's awesomeness.
I visited il duomo in Florence back in 2004, and the tour guide there said that one of Bruneleschi's most important innovations with the construction of the dome was the use of a herringbone pattern for laying the bricks - something else that was never done before.
Fantastic show guys, I'm loving every moment of this and Crash Course! I know that the sciences and world history are more your thing, but I'm interested in learning more about art history in particular. Assuming that you're not going to start a series on that, could you recommend a show similar to yours (you know, fun) about artists and art history?
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King is an excellent and easy read book on the development of this dome. It includes the competition for the best dome, the designs of the dome, machinery, and much more. I read it in a Renaissance in Italy class and it was excellent. One of the titles of a chapter is the The Ass and The Babbler.
You should do one about Jan Purkinje. He started the first physiology lab in 1842, and discovered communicating cells in the heart and cerebellum that carry his name. Also, Louis Pasteur would be a great one.
I would honestly love if you did some astronomy videos on black holes and super/hyper novas. Also, if you could, show how both types of black holes are created.
You should definitely talk MORE about how architecture works (more specifically that amazing dome) and other domes and how people got buildings back then not to fall down. And about how the physics of his dome work. That would be cool...Thanks. :)
Ack! The comments are suggesting hour-long episodes. Please don't! I like this format: short episodes, often. I can watch them when I have a few minutes before I have to leave for class or while I'm waiting for something to cook. I don't have a lot of time to sit and continually watch something for an hour.
I always loved the Italian Renaissance because of the synchronicity between art and science in that period. Do a video on Leonardo Da Vinci! He made the MOST exhaustive dissection of the human body, which was not matched for a hundred years, and he discovered something about the heart that was confirmed by science just recently!
Everything you said here is correct, except about honey comb structure. That stroke of brilliance dates back to the Pantheon and was utilized primarily to reduce the weight of the dome. That alteration is what allowed the Pantheon dome to stand as it is; the world's largest unsupported dome for over 1,000 years. Before the Pantheon and HCS, even smaller unsupported domes collapsed under the strain of their own weight.
This is really awesome! I wanna learn more about Brunelleschi now. Btw, you should totally read 'Pillars of the Earth' if you haven't already. There's some pretty neat stuff about cathedral building!
why did you have to post this AFTER art history exam (over the Renaissance) " lol. still a great video, hank. thanks for posting it:-). I am gonna send a link to it to my art history professor :-) .
Could you do a video on Fermi? I've seen his name quite a bit: the paradox, the Dark Energy camera, Fermionic Hadrons, ect... but I have no clue who he is. Thanks Hank, and keep up your amazing work
@Yue65 no, Leonardo studied under Verrocchio, who designed the globe at the top of the dome, but there are drawings by Leonardo of Brunelleschi's machines, such as the crane mentioned by Hank.
Great video. BTW, flying buttress was used to support thin outer walls of gothic style churches which have more windows than the prevalent Romanesque style. Gothic churches do not have huge domes like the Duomo of Florence.
I'm commenting on an old video but could SOMEONE explain to me why they banned the flying buttresses!? I have been digging around and found the answers; "They banned them because they're enemies used them" but I also found "Their enemies used them because Florence refused to use them" and "It was cos they swore into poverty and buttresses were expensive" which doesn't seem a likely answer since building everything was expensive anyway. HALP?
I realize nobody likes these comments, but I've never commented this early on one of Hank's videos, and I feel the need to share that information. So yay!
Just had a test that covered Brunelleschi's architectural works, glad Scishow decided to cover him! You have made an architecture student very pleased.
*8 years ago*
this is the best one of this whole series.
Let the bodies hit the floor
wOaH
brunelleschi is one of my "heros". it's great that you did a episode about him.
Favorite episode so far. More Great Minds, please!!
I have to say; this may have been my favorite scishow yet.
So good and funny
Best Sci-show so far, It's great to feel your enthusiasm in this one! Best Wishes.
Your sense of humor is AWESOME! :D
Excellent video. I like how this is more, historical science, but still totally relevant and fascinating.
Thank you for making this relatable and interesting!
We studied this in my Humanities class last year. It was my favorite ever class, with my favorite ever music teacher. Thanks, Mr Defoe for teaching me something interesting enough to be on scishow
I really liked this episode, I hope there are more Great Minds episodes coming!
I definitively want to see more great mind episodes.
you asked the question i've started to ask in the first 30 seconds of the video. it's nice to know that someones is asking that because i was starting to think that i was over-thinking things.
As a civil engineering major who took a bunch of architectural history classes, this made my day. Brunelleschi is my favorite architect/engineer and I totally freaked out when I saw this posted.
This video made me laugh so much that I have more energy to complete a school project research on Brunelleschi
For me, this channel has gone from being a weird channel i subscribed to, just because of the fact that it was Hank, to being the most awesome and addictive channel in UA-cam for me! HURRAY! GOOD WORK HANK!
Best informational video i have ever watched.
These videos are awesome but that was by far my favourite one, Filippo Brunelleschi just made my top 10 heroes of history.
water was much to contaminated at the time so it was safer to drink beer or wine. could you please do an episode on the development of clean water in Europe?
"Taking the wine away completely was apparently not an option."
Yeah not unless you want to get large numbers of medieval workers, really angry while they're carrying hammers and sharp implements. Not a good idea really.
Well when your water would just as easy give you some nasty incurable disease as hydrate you the (mostly) sterile wine was a much better option.
+Michael Price You still can't really take wine away from italians now too, so... yeah he made the right decision
At the time it was safer to drink wine because water could kill you, they even gave the wine water mix to pregnant women to protect them.
So this comes out two weeks AFTER my exam on the Renaissance (laughed a bit when you mentioned his other failed contest entry)... Still totally sending this to my professor though!
*8 years ago*
@@martyc3447 tfw you get a notification for a reply on an eight-year-old comment you don't remember making. dafuq
@@MadameBerryGames lmao I think it's cool you replied I wasn't actually expecting that. I thought you might have ditched this account or forgot about it haha.
@@martyc3447 I use this account to watch miscellaneous videos so my art account only gets other art videos recommended to it. lol
We should do a Sci show on sight because our eyes are like super awesome!
Hank is the best quick artist I have ever seen
Wow. That was awesome and super interesting.
Also, I love how Hank's facial hair keeps appearing in Sci Show. It makes me giggle.
i love these great mind videos!
I like the concept of "Great Minds", hopefully there are more to come...
I like history when it's presented in a fun way like this :) Back in a school it was soooo boring!!!
Hank,
I find it ironic that you decided to talk about Brunelleschi's dome today. I learned about it in my Humanities class back in January and frankly...you made it much more interesting!!!
I learned about this dome in art history, but you made it seem far more interesting.
That string of expletives that you had Brunelleschi say to the committee was genius! And I don't usually like swear words.
You really need a Sci Show Bob!
omg i learned about this guy last year!!!! he was so cool i wrote an essay on his work.
an episode all about the Standard Model in particle physics would be the bomb.
Of course you release this episode the week AFTER I learn about Brunelleschi in art history...
can you make a video about Dante Alighieri I think it's going to be a great topic
I totally learned about this guy when I did my research paper on the Medici last year.
Linear perspective! I LOVE linear perspective! Well, thank you that guy!
I climbed the duomo the other day for class, this is so relevant to my life!
This should be on TV
Best episode ever guys! I've never laughed so hard about about history, great work!
Learned all of that in Art History this semester. Quite amazing
Hank is a wizard, drawing awesome landscapes and other pictures in mere seconds with no marker point!
once again awesome
I'm an art history major and I greatly appreciate this... I love you Hank! DFTBA
I love that studying history of art means I know exactly what you're talking about :P nerd win?
Instablaster
I love this channel, the videos, you and your awesome brain! I love learning new things, please keep it up!
*8 years ago*
Hank, you are pretty fucking cool. I love how frequently you post too. Vsauce is good, but waiting a month or whatever for a new video is just ridiculous. Keep em coming!
I second this! Not that I'm in middle school, and I don't have kids in middle school, but I was there once and I know I would have loved this. The only cool learning videos I remember were Bill Nye and I was in high school by then.
One of the greatest Renaissance era architects in MY Scishow?
That's pretty damn awesome!!
All I can think is how this was filmed in october and we are watching it so much later.
I'm so proud of knowing about Brunelleschi before I watched this.
I remember watching a documentary on this! It was really good!
My favorite sci show XD
In boring school of Architecture they never taught me anything like this of Brunelleschi, just passed him as another Renascence Architect, now I'm glad I know this guy's awesomeness.
I visited il duomo in Florence back in 2004, and the tour guide there said that one of Bruneleschi's most important innovations with the construction of the dome was the use of a herringbone pattern for laying the bricks - something else that was never done before.
Great Minds On Blaise Pascal plz!
Loved this! I remember learning about him in my history class, and I thought he was really interesting then too.
There is an article about the Dome in National Geographic this year in March!
Quick and easy! THANK YOU! Great refreshing info before my exam
Ahhh Filippo Brunellleschi, how you remind me of Italian Renaissance Art History. I miss that class.
Fantastic show guys, I'm loving every moment of this and Crash Course!
I know that the sciences and world history are more your thing, but I'm interested in learning more about art history in particular. Assuming that you're not going to start a series on that, could you recommend a show similar to yours (you know, fun) about artists and art history?
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King is an excellent and easy read book on the development of this dome. It includes the competition for the best dome, the designs of the dome, machinery, and much more. I read it in a Renaissance in Italy class and it was excellent. One of the titles of a chapter is the The Ass and The Babbler.
Fantastic!!!
You should do one about Jan Purkinje. He started the first physiology lab in 1842, and discovered communicating cells in the heart and cerebellum that carry his name. Also, Louis Pasteur would be a great one.
I just got done learning about him in my art history class.
Can you upload more "Great Minds" videos? I'm a really big fan of your work, by the way!
I would honestly love if you did some astronomy videos on black holes and super/hyper novas. Also, if you could, show how both types of black holes are created.
I feel so proud that I remembered this from my Art History class :D
Yay, architecture video! ^^
You should definitely talk MORE about how architecture works (more specifically that amazing dome) and other domes and how people got buildings back then not to fall down. And about how the physics of his dome work. That would be cool...Thanks. :)
Ack! The comments are suggesting hour-long episodes. Please don't! I like this format: short episodes, often. I can watch them when I have a few minutes before I have to leave for class or while I'm waiting for something to cook. I don't have a lot of time to sit and continually watch something for an hour.
I'm doing a project on the cathedral of Florence. This came at the right time!
New scishow ep-OH GOD HANK TURNED INTO GORDON FREEMAN
Great video and I think you should bring back the Gotee Hank!
I would love a Sci Show about moores law!
I always loved the Italian Renaissance because of the synchronicity between art and science in that period. Do a video on Leonardo Da Vinci! He made the MOST exhaustive dissection of the human body, which was not matched for a hundred years, and he discovered something about the heart that was confirmed by science just recently!
Everything you said here is correct, except about honey comb structure. That stroke of brilliance dates back to the Pantheon and was utilized primarily to reduce the weight of the dome. That alteration is what allowed the Pantheon dome to stand as it is; the world's largest unsupported dome for over 1,000 years. Before the Pantheon and HCS, even smaller unsupported domes collapsed under the strain of their own weight.
yay architecture history! more more!
my favorite building in the whole world!!!
Gotta love science and art history
the goatee has reappeared!
This episode made me laugh :) Thank you
This is really awesome! I wanna learn more about Brunelleschi now. Btw, you should totally read 'Pillars of the Earth' if you haven't already. There's some pretty neat stuff about cathedral building!
*8 years ago*
A video on superfluidity would be awesomely awesome!
why did you have to post this AFTER art history exam (over the Renaissance) " lol. still a great video, hank. thanks for posting it:-). I am gonna send a link to it to my art history professor :-) .
I love this😂 lowkey helped so much
@jedichase Definitely an awesome episode, more we say MOAR!
Could you do a video on Fermi? I've seen his name quite a bit: the paradox, the Dark Energy camera, Fermionic Hadrons, ect... but I have no clue who he is. Thanks Hank, and keep up your amazing work
@Yue65 no, Leonardo studied under Verrocchio, who designed the globe at the top of the dome, but there are drawings by Leonardo of Brunelleschi's machines, such as the crane mentioned by Hank.
Great video. BTW, flying buttress was used to support thin outer walls of gothic style churches which have more windows than the prevalent Romanesque style. Gothic churches do not have huge domes like the Duomo of Florence.
I love the beard Hank you should get it back
it's gonna blow your freaken minds away
Hank is the most amazing speed artist ever!
Brunelleschi also revolutionized theatrical design (as well as painting) with his single point perspective. Art and science, ftw!
I'm commenting on an old video but
could SOMEONE explain to me why they banned the flying buttresses!?
I have been digging around and found the answers;
"They banned them because they're enemies used them" but I also found "Their enemies used them because Florence refused to use them" and
"It was cos they swore into poverty and buttresses were expensive" which doesn't seem a likely answer since building everything was expensive anyway.
HALP?
I don't know why but renaissance-related things make me very excited...
I realize nobody likes these comments, but I've never commented this early on one of Hank's videos, and I feel the need to share that information. So yay!
This video made me think of The pillars of the earth. Such a good book :)