Just had a test that covered Brunelleschi's architectural works, glad Scishow decided to cover him! You have made an architecture student very pleased.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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 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.
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.
"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.
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
well, gee! Thank you, kind sir, for this wonderful advice. How could I not have thought of that myself? I guess all the reading and learning of the past 20 years must have been completely pointless, when I couldn't even come up with this simple idea... But may I kindly inform you that I did not just read the mentioned article but also a couple of biographies about Tesla et al. and I merely recommended to put those information in youtube clip form so that others could learn about him, too...
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?
@scishow I would like to know more about decay processes. How does k-capture work, how does a neutron decay into an electron and proton, and does the nucleus organize into shells like it's electrons do? I definitely would like to know!!!
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!
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!
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.
Awesome video! Wasn't Brunelleschi the person who supposedly smashed an egg against a flat surface, creating a dome out of half of the egg, and presenting it as how the actual building's dome would look?
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
@Tuuliska That is more or less true bcause of the fact that they had not figured to distill water back then. they were confused as to how the wine made with water was not as hazardous as the water they made the wine with. But the wine was safe because they had to heat it to get the fermenting process to begin, Which also distilled the water, boiling off any impurites.
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
It would be awesome if you did a Great Minds episode on Nikola Tesla! He was absolutely brilliant, and you could talk about his unfinished experiments and what the world would be like today if he hadn't died young.
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."
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.
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.
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
Let the bodies hit the floor
wOaH
I have to say; this may have been my favorite scishow yet.
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!
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.
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
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
Best Sci-show so far, It's great to feel your enthusiasm in this one! Best Wishes.
Excellent video. I like how this is more, historical science, but still totally relevant and fascinating.
Favorite episode so far. More Great Minds, please!!
Your sense of humor is AWESOME! :D
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.
That string of expletives that you had Brunelleschi say to the committee was genius! And I don't usually like swear words.
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?
Hank is a wizard, drawing awesome landscapes and other pictures in mere seconds with no marker point!
We should do a Sci show on sight because our eyes are like super awesome!
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 is the best quick artist I have ever seen
I really liked this episode, I hope there are more Great Minds episodes coming!
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.
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 definitively want to see more great mind episodes.
Best informational video i have ever watched.
I climbed the duomo the other day for class, this is so relevant to my life!
All I can think is how this was filmed in october and we are watching it so much later.
I like the concept of "Great Minds", hopefully there are more to come...
Thank you for making this relatable and interesting!
I'm an art history major and I greatly appreciate this... I love you Hank! DFTBA
I like history when it's presented in a fun way like this :) Back in a school it was soooo boring!!!
I totally learned about this guy when I did my research paper on the Medici last year.
So good and funny
One of the greatest Renaissance era architects in MY Scishow?
That's pretty damn awesome!!
Wow. That was awesome and super interesting.
Also, I love how Hank's facial hair keeps appearing in Sci Show. It makes me giggle.
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.
@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.
Of course you release this episode the week AFTER I learn about Brunelleschi in art history...
Ahhh Filippo Brunellleschi, how you remind me of Italian Renaissance Art History. I miss that class.
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!
You really need a Sci Show Bob!
I'm so proud of knowing about Brunelleschi before I watched this.
omg i learned about this guy last year!!!! he was so cool i wrote an essay on his work.
I'm doing a project on the cathedral of Florence. This came at the right time!
Learned all of that in Art History this semester. Quite amazing
Linear perspective! I LOVE linear perspective! Well, thank you that guy!
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.
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. :)
Best episode ever guys! I've never laughed so hard about about history, great work!
I love this channel, the videos, you and your awesome brain! I love learning new things, please keep it up!
*8 years ago*
I learned about this dome in art history, but you made it seem far more interesting.
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.
an episode all about the Standard Model in particle physics would be the bomb.
"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.
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.
This should be on TV
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 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!
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.
There is an article about the Dome in National Geographic this year in March!
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.
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.
Quick and easy! THANK YOU! Great refreshing info before my exam
Great video and I think you should bring back the Gotee Hank!
I remember watching a documentary on this! It was really good!
I feel so proud that I remembered this from my Art History class :D
well, gee! Thank you, kind sir, for this wonderful advice. How could I not have thought of that myself? I guess all the reading and learning of the past 20 years must have been completely pointless, when I couldn't even come up with this simple idea...
But may I kindly inform you that I did not just read the mentioned article but also a couple of biographies about Tesla et al. and I merely recommended to put those information in youtube clip form so that others could learn about him, too...
i love these great mind videos!
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?
@scishow I would like to know more about decay processes. How does k-capture work, how does a neutron decay into an electron and proton, and does the nucleus organize into shells like it's electrons do? I definitely would like to know!!!
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 just got done learning about him in my art history class.
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 sci show where I don't feel completely ignorant upon watching. Yay for the architecture nerds! :D
Fantastic!!!
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.
Loved this! I remember learning about him in my history class, and I thought he was really interesting then too.
Brunelleschi also revolutionized theatrical design (as well as painting) with his single point perspective. Art and science, ftw!
once again awesome
Hank is the most amazing speed artist ever!
can you make a video about Dante Alighieri I think it's going to be a great topic
Awesome video!
Wasn't Brunelleschi the person who supposedly smashed an egg against a flat surface, creating a dome out of half of the egg, and presenting it as how the actual building's dome would look?
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
@Tuuliska That is more or less true bcause of the fact that they had not figured to distill water back then. they were confused as to how the wine made with water was not as hazardous as the water they made the wine with. But the wine was safe because they had to heat it to get the fermenting process to begin, Which also distilled the water, boiling off any impurites.
One of my life goals is to see this church and Florence in general ever since playing Assassin's Creed II.
A video on superfluidity would be awesomely awesome!
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
I don't know why but renaissance-related things make me very excited...
Great work! Thanks! Great minds on Norman Borlaug, please.
Great channel! great video! I think you should do a video about Kurt Godel.. or maybe about his theorem in the IDTIMWYTIM playlist..
New scishow ep-OH GOD HANK TURNED INTO GORDON FREEMAN
I saw this on the history channel's series "Engineering an Empire" very interesting
It would be awesome if you did a Great Minds episode on Nikola Tesla! He was absolutely brilliant, and you could talk about his unfinished experiments and what the world would be like today if he hadn't died young.
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."
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.
This episode made me laugh :) Thank you
I would love a Sci Show about moores law!
Hank could you please talk about phantoms pains: phantom limbs, charles bonnet syndrome, and the works of Dr. Ramachandran. NEUROSCIENCE!!! WEEE