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
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!
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!!!
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.
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I like history when it's presented in a fun way like this :) Back in a school it was soooo boring!!!
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?
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.
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. :)
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.
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 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.
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!
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 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!
I would argue that Petrach's writing started the Renaissance. His writing discussed the importance of reading and classics and exploring and thinking and discovering which was sort of what the Renaissance was all about.
Brunelleschi actually proved his idea by having the judges stand an egg up. So normally this is impossible and the judges couldn't do but Brunelleschi showed them how. The way he was able to do this was be barely breaking the egg. The way this is works is when the egg is broken it actually supports itself.
I just finished studying the Renaissance in art history class, and all the book said about Brunelleschi was that he built Santa Maria del Fiore using 2 domes. I don't know how that class managed to make the renaissance boring, but it succeeded.
@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.
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?
What about Jagadish Chandra Bose the guy who actually invented the telephone, and discovered that plants are actually alive, and was a freedom fighter against the British Empire. Can you please do a video on him.
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.
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!
I am mind-blown (yet again) by the fact that this guy was so awesome, and smart, and the fact that he could BUILD A FREAKING DOME in the 1300's!! However, most of all, by the fact that Hank made it through this entire episode without a SINGLE AC reference - 'Cus I certainly couldn't help thinking about it xD
The skyscraper guy you're looking for is probably Mies van der Rohe. Although he didn't invent the skyscraper, he did pioneer the design aesthetic of glass and steel frame buildings, which is what most people think of when they think of skyscrapers.
If memory serves right, the Dorian Greeks figured out that if they used lighter stones for the roof of a structure the walls would have to support less weight. The Romans applied this knowledge to dome construction by making the top thinner than the base. As for the honey comb structure, I think that was all Brunelleschi.
For further reading I would suggest the book "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King. It's short, informative and an interesting read, if you like architecture and history.
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 :-) .
@@powergannon I just genuinely think its cool that this comment was made 8 years ago, during such a different time, and it's also cool how you responded after 8 years, which just puts into consideration how long you've had that account and stuck with it. I don't know. Just personal opinion haha.
I'm pretty sure that he didn't invent linear perspective, because that cathedral's dome was finished in 1515 and Leonardo Da Vinci used it for The Last Supper which was made ca. 1495-1498. There were also examples of linear perspective beforehand. (I just had a giant Art History mid-term entirely devoted to Renaissance art.)
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
Concerning the intro. the history of the development of skyscrapers actually is quite interesting (if you're into urbanistic typal arch. history stuff). Unless you consider the Chrysler Building the first skyscraper (historians don't), in which case it really was someone holding a drawing and saying "hey look at this."
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*
Let the bodies hit the floor
wOaH
this is the best one of this whole series.
brunelleschi is one of my "heros". it's great that you did a episode about him.
This video made me laugh so much that I have more energy to complete a school project research on Brunelleschi
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 have to say; this may have been my favorite scishow yet.
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!
Favorite episode so far. More Great Minds, please!!
"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.
Hank is a wizard, drawing awesome landscapes and other pictures in mere seconds with no marker point!
Best Sci-show so far, It's great to feel your enthusiasm in this one! Best Wishes.
These videos are awesome but that was by far my favourite one, Filippo Brunelleschi just made my top 10 heroes of history.
Your sense of humor is AWESOME! :D
That string of expletives that you had Brunelleschi say to the committee was genius! And I don't usually like swear words.
Hank is the best quick artist I have ever seen
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.
Excellent video. I like how this is more, historical science, but still totally relevant and fascinating.
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.
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
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 really liked this episode, I hope there are more Great Minds episodes coming!
I definitively want to see more great mind episodes.
There is an article about the Dome in National Geographic this year in March!
We should do a Sci show on sight because our eyes are like super awesome!
I'm an art history major and I greatly appreciate this... I love you Hank! DFTBA
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?
I like the concept of "Great Minds", hopefully there are more to come...
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!!!
All I can think is how this was filmed in october and we are watching it so much later.
Thank you for making this relatable and interesting!
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.
I like history when it's presented in a fun way like this :) Back in a school it was soooo boring!!!
One of the greatest Renaissance era architects in MY Scishow?
That's pretty damn awesome!!
Linear perspective! I LOVE linear perspective! Well, thank you that guy!
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'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 totally learned about this guy when I did my research paper on the Medici last year.
an episode all about the Standard Model in particle physics would be the bomb.
can you make a video about Dante Alighieri I think it's going to be a great topic
I learned about this dome in art history, but you made it seem far more interesting.
I climbed the duomo the other day for class, this is so relevant to my life!
Great Minds On Blaise Pascal plz!
omg i learned about this guy last year!!!! he was so cool i wrote an essay on his work.
Learned all of that in Art History this semester. Quite amazing
Best informational video i have ever watched.
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.
Of course you release this episode the week AFTER I learn about Brunelleschi in art history...
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. :)
I love this channel, the videos, you and your awesome brain! I love learning new things, please keep it up!
*8 years ago*
You really need a Sci Show Bob!
I'm so proud of knowing about Brunelleschi before I watched this.
New scishow ep-OH GOD HANK TURNED INTO GORDON FREEMAN
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.
Ahhh Filippo Brunellleschi, how you remind me of Italian Renaissance Art History. I miss that class.
Best episode ever guys! I've never laughed so hard about about history, great work!
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 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.
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!
So good and funny
This should be on TV
Brunelleschi also revolutionized theatrical design (as well as painting) with his single point perspective. Art and science, ftw!
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 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!
I remember watching a documentary on this! It was really good!
I'm doing a project on the cathedral of Florence. This came at the right time!
I would argue that Petrach's writing started the Renaissance. His writing discussed the importance of reading and classics and exploring and thinking and discovering which was sort of what the Renaissance was all about.
Brunelleschi actually proved his idea by having the judges stand an egg up. So normally this is impossible and the judges couldn't do but Brunelleschi showed them how. The way he was able to do this was be barely breaking the egg. The way this is works is when the egg is broken it actually supports itself.
Great video and I think you should bring back the Gotee Hank!
Hank is the most amazing speed artist ever!
I love the beard Hank you should get it back
Loved this! I remember learning about him in my history class, and I thought he was really interesting then too.
I just finished studying the Renaissance in art history class, and all the book said about Brunelleschi was that he built Santa Maria del Fiore using 2 domes. I don't know how that class managed to make the renaissance boring, but it succeeded.
@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.
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?
It was no longer the Middle Ages - it was now the Renaissance which was the start of the Modern Era.
Quick and easy! THANK YOU! Great refreshing info before my exam
One of my life goals is to see this church and Florence in general ever since playing Assassin's Creed II.
What about Jagadish Chandra Bose the guy who actually invented the telephone, and discovered that plants are actually alive, and was a freedom fighter against the British Empire. Can you please do a video on him.
I just got done learning about him in my art history class.
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.
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*
I love that studying history of art means I know exactly what you're talking about :P nerd win?
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I am mind-blown (yet again)
by the fact that this guy was so awesome, and smart, and the fact that he could BUILD A FREAKING DOME in the 1300's!!
However, most of all, by the fact that Hank made it through this entire episode without a SINGLE AC reference - 'Cus I certainly couldn't help thinking about it xD
i love these great mind videos!
The skyscraper guy you're looking for is probably Mies van der Rohe. Although he didn't invent the skyscraper, he did pioneer the design aesthetic of glass and steel frame buildings, which is what most people think of when they think of skyscrapers.
I feel so proud that I remembered this from my Art History class :D
I don't know why but renaissance-related things make me very excited...
I love this😂 lowkey helped so much
If memory serves right, the Dorian Greeks figured out that if they used lighter stones for the roof of a structure the walls would have to support less weight. The Romans applied this knowledge to dome construction by making the top thinner than the base. As for the honey comb structure, I think that was all Brunelleschi.
For further reading I would suggest the book "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King. It's short, informative and an interesting read, if you like architecture and history.
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 :-) .
Thank you Hank for explaining in under five minutes what took 2 college classes to get across.
*8 years ago*
@@martyc3447 What about it?
@@powergannon I just genuinely think its cool that this comment was made 8 years ago, during such a different time, and it's also cool how you responded after 8 years, which just puts into consideration how long you've had that account and stuck with it. I don't know. Just personal opinion haha.
A sci show where I don't feel completely ignorant upon watching. Yay for the architecture nerds! :D
I'm pretty sure that he didn't invent linear perspective, because that cathedral's dome was finished in 1515 and Leonardo Da Vinci used it for The Last Supper which was made ca. 1495-1498. There were also examples of linear perspective beforehand. (I just had a giant Art History mid-term entirely devoted to Renaissance art.)
Gotta love science and art history
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
Concerning the intro. the history of the development of skyscrapers actually is quite interesting (if you're into urbanistic typal arch. history stuff). Unless you consider the Chrysler Building the first skyscraper (historians don't), in which case it really was someone holding a drawing and saying "hey look at this."
my favorite building in the whole world!!!