The 'Lost' Galileo Letter - Objectivity 185

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Head Librarian Keith Moore gives us the low-down on the 'recently discovered' Galileo letter that has been making headlines all around the world... More links below ↓↓↓
Featuring Keith Moore from The Royal Society speaking with Brady.
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@timothygalvin3021 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. You can tell that behind Keith's eyes was pure rage when he talked about someone saying the letter was misfiled.

@steve1978ger 5 жыл бұрын

Keith does not strike me as the raging type

@AndrewRedroad 5 жыл бұрын

"No. We knew about it all along."

@Epinardscaramel 5 жыл бұрын

You can't get more filed than that!™

@Jesse__H 5 жыл бұрын

Head Librarian Keith Moore needs his own KZfaq channel! I would watch the shit out of that. Just him, choosing topics that he personally finds interesting, and explaining them to us with the help of his vast library! Brady is invaluable for Numberphile, as he bridges the gap between the mathematician and the viewer / layman. He's smart enough to follow along (more than I can say for myself), but grounded enough to make it make sense to _us_ . But Mr. Moore's the real hero of this channel, imho.

@PepperGipper 5 жыл бұрын

Jesse H. Every video from this channel that has Keith in it is literally exactly that.

@UpcycleElectronics 5 жыл бұрын

I love hearing the stories Brady and team tell us that feature Keith. I will not discount this channel or the genius behind it. Keith is a busy guy. I'm thrilled that Brady manages to squeeze a bit of time out of Keith's schedule regularly. I can't imagine the amount of unseen effort and work that goes into these productions. I can say a simple 5 min video explaining something technical, visually, without even doing a voice over, takes me about a week of work. There is a tremendous amount of effort going into a channel like this. Our opportunity to appreciate Keith in this situation is due to many many other factors. I'm sure Keith could figure out the basics of KZfaq and would do well, but it takes a special kind of Brady to pull off what happens here. It's a full time job, and one that Keith would probably struggle to keep up with while also working at the Royal Society with so much responsibility. That's worth appreciating too. Discounting Brady here is about like the general [idiot box] media insulting Keith by saying 'this GG letter was lost/misplaced.' Thanks Brady, and everyone else that makes these uploads happen. I really enjoy them. -Jake

@user-ol2mr4bx7c 5 жыл бұрын

Keith please do podcasts or something so we can have you tell us about things for longer

@2kimports 5 жыл бұрын

KEITH IN A PODCAST WOULD BE AMAZING!!!!

@stinkee2 5 жыл бұрын

Podkeith

@stinkee2 5 жыл бұрын

Keithcast

@robinagreer 5 жыл бұрын

Yes PLEASE!!!

@dogerriders868 5 жыл бұрын

I could listen to Keith talk about historical documents all day long.

@AureliusR Жыл бұрын

Everyone asking for more of Keith has to understand he is the *head librarian* of one of the most famous archives in the world. He's probably an extraordinarily busy guy, and the fact that he takes time out of his day to film with Brady *probably* comes at least partially out of his personal time. So until he retires or becomes Librarian Emeritus or something, this is probably the most he can sustain.

@Varksterable 5 жыл бұрын

In my browser window the header notes were truncated at; "Featuring Keith Moore fro" and my brain instantly filled out the whole sentence as; "Featuring Keith Moore of Keith Moore fame." :)

@stuartthegrant 5 жыл бұрын

Just imagine a letter written by Galileo! Wonderful that it still exists in the Royal Society Library. Top video subject Keith.

@EGarrett01 5 жыл бұрын

There was another one on Antique Roadshow. You can search it up here.

@goagardner 5 жыл бұрын

I want my initials to be GG too

@talhatariqyuluqatdis 5 жыл бұрын

Did you say TT?

@goagardner 5 жыл бұрын

QQ would be fine too

@oldcowbb 5 жыл бұрын

so you can end every letter with "GG"

@sillysausage4549 4 жыл бұрын

You can change your name to anything you want (providing it isn't offensive) by law. If you want to call yourself Geoffrey Giraffe, go for it.

@xcq1 5 жыл бұрын

Although I like science and the Royal society, I've come to watch Objectivity exclusively because of Keith.

@naota3k 5 жыл бұрын

Keith! I missed him. The other people were fantastic too, but there's nothing like Keith Moore!

@ethanmartin2781 5 жыл бұрын

This is the most underrated Brady channel on youtube....

@Schizopantheist 5 жыл бұрын

Keep on Keithing on!

@celtgunn9775 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely ~love~ the Royal Society Library. There is just so much within to explore and learn about. Brady, is there a website with plants from the Library books that people can view online? I would love to see them. As well as animals, so fascinating to see the variety in the world!

@philipclapper268 5 жыл бұрын

This is really interesting stuff! Also, Brady's haircut in this episode looks very sharp (as does Keith's, as always)

@kevinbright9360 2 жыл бұрын

Love the channel!

@MacoveiVlad 5 жыл бұрын

Next up: The White Gloves of Destiny find the Holy Grail :)

@urisbdbcn 5 жыл бұрын

It is an open secret that the Royal Society keeps the Holy Grail in its archives!

@recklessroges 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, obviously they've already got one.

@RonJohn63 5 жыл бұрын

@@urisbdbcn that wasn't in Dan Brown's well-regarded and completely accurate history of the Merovingians!

@paultraynorbsc627 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant thanks for sharing 👍

@bloemundude 5 жыл бұрын

I just checked my office. No lost hand-written Galileo letters here. How about at your place?

@flamingmuffin666 5 жыл бұрын

More Keith moore

@LiLi-or2gm 5 жыл бұрын

Oh, I suggested this object recently- cool!!

@tncorgi92 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Galileo expected the Spanish Inquisition.

@simontay4851 5 жыл бұрын

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition. Our chief weapon is surprise...

@robbiemer8178 5 жыл бұрын

Our chief weapon is surprise. And fear...

@robbiemer8178 5 жыл бұрын

Our three. Three weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency...and a fanatical devotion to the pope...

@davidrenton Жыл бұрын

@@simontay4851 apart from the 6 month heads up they gave you

@DaBoff99 5 жыл бұрын

Good video Brady

@davidrenton Жыл бұрын

Objectivity 1000 : Keith , oh yep we had the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant in the basement for years, and they where correctly filed.

@RonJohn63 5 жыл бұрын

1:46 Everything revolves around *me!!!*

@PinkChucky15 5 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@GildedEntries 5 жыл бұрын

Dang, perusing an original Galileo letter. It doesn’t get cooler than that.

@JeremyWS 5 жыл бұрын

I always liked Galileo. He was my favorite ancient astronomer.

@Tevildo 5 жыл бұрын

batmanfanforever08 - Naah, he was a bit of a charlatan - he didn't invent the telescope (that was Lippershey), or the theory that everything falls at the same speed (that was Oresme) or drop a cannonball off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and most of his astronomical theories (as opposed to observations) turned out to be incorrect. Tycho Brahe for my money.

@PopeLando 5 жыл бұрын

So the Tracts' printer, instead of putting the author as Galileo Galilei, evidently had Bohemian Rhapsody running through his head 0:50

@Tevildo 5 жыл бұрын

PopeLando - Galileius, Galileii, second declension. _By_ Galileo, with-by-or-from Galileo.

@Tevildo 5 жыл бұрын

@David - "There was once a man called Galileo Galilei, who was - a declension."

@blindbrick 5 жыл бұрын

You are the spitting image of the dutch singer, Stef Bos, in his younger years.

@JimFortune 5 жыл бұрын

Does the Royal Society now get a flood of applications for the position of archivist?

@chrismusix5669 3 жыл бұрын

Where in the scriptures does it say everything revolves around the Earth? Are you talking about Ecclesiastes 1:5? That scripture is worded vaguely.

@whalep 5 жыл бұрын

KEEEEIIITTTHHHH

@EGarrett01 5 жыл бұрын

If you'd like to compare this letter to another one written in Galileo's handwriting, check out this one that was appraised on Antique Roadshow. watch?v=UB1ZAPqRVa0

@Epinardscaramel 5 жыл бұрын

It's not false, it "looks different from the truth" 😁

@daveh3997 5 жыл бұрын

A little CYA. Some things never seem to change.

@TheGurman8r 5 жыл бұрын

Please get Keith to make ASMR videos.

@annegoodreau4925 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see more of a study about what Scripture actually says about the earth being the center of the universe, because I am not aware that this is ever declared as a scientific statement. There are references to the sun rising, etc., just as we use those idioms today. My point is that I don't think the Church derived the idea of the earth being at the center from Scripture as much as their own vanity and inflated importance of mankind led them there.

@scrotiemcboogerballs1981 4 жыл бұрын

It's so funny he always points out where people wrote in those old books knowing it must drive that librarian crazy lol

@Yupppi Жыл бұрын

How can it be long lost if it's been right there in the Royal Society?

@loganv0410 5 жыл бұрын

Was it really what is "said in the Bible" or the dogma du jour of professional churchmen out to maintain an unthought status quo

@fustigate314159 5 жыл бұрын

I think this is a very important question they didn't properly address here.

@Casey_Jones 5 жыл бұрын

G.G.

@abhitomar320 5 жыл бұрын

i heard about this mystery solved

@Polite_Cat 5 жыл бұрын

it shows how insane religion was (and still is) when galileo had to convince them of his "direct observation" method instead of scripture. literally had to convince them that seeing something in front of your eyes as proof was a better method then a bronze age book written by unknown anonymous people. and he still got persecuted. INSANE.

@nu11y61 5 жыл бұрын

@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S. 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine writing something today and in four hundred years' time it's still relevant. I mean, if you're going to do it, it had better be more meaningful than 'lol bae u so random' or some shit.

@smaakjeks 5 жыл бұрын

I wrote a super edgy letter about how life is meaningless and how we're all going to die one day, and the universe doesn't even care. I have a feeling it will transcend time and culture forever more.

@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S. 5 жыл бұрын

Smaakjeks K I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish but Albert Camus had the best life-is-meaningless writing of all time. Of all time!

@omikronweapon 5 жыл бұрын

Tweeds!

@mizutoryu242 5 жыл бұрын

Vatican, you're not as exclusives as you think.

@TheyCallMeNewb 5 жыл бұрын

The obeisance of Galileo here, is dejecting. Perhaps fortune didn't yet favour the prepared mind in 1613.

@TheHealta 5 жыл бұрын

hi basia

@LeoStaley 5 жыл бұрын

If by "the scriptures" you mean, Aristotle and Ptolomy, or the church's official cosmological tradition based thereon, then yes. But The Bible itself never touches on heliocentric vs geocentric because it presumes a flat world with the sky being a dome above, and could never have conceived of orbits.

@oneonta310 5 жыл бұрын

Catholic here. The bible doesn't say that the earth is at the center. This is a common myth.

@oneonta310 5 жыл бұрын

@@supaleetkillah its more complicated than "he went against church teachings and the church didn't like that."

@brainimp 5 жыл бұрын

Bible does not say a lot of things but it never stopped the powerful religious leaders from making conclusions based on vague verses, then making them doctrine and enforcing it on the populations they controlled

@oneonta310 5 жыл бұрын

@@brainimp it wasn't based on ANY verses. The bible isn't a science book.

@brainimp 5 жыл бұрын

yes it was based on vague verses, it never said specifically the earth was the centre but they deduced from various verses that it had to be for the verses to be true

@moochgoestube 5 жыл бұрын

It is suggested and has been interpreted that way for centuries - it took the Catholic church way over 300 years to halfheartedly acknowledge that they were wrong in condemning Galileo. It's not like there is a specific cosmological model in the bible, but there are certain passages that suggest that the earth doesn't move and is at the center of the universe. It was enough to convince the church back then to think Galileo's views were a heresy. You may think that the bible isn't a science book, but there are enough people out there who think it is.

@RyanSaturley 5 жыл бұрын

It's obvious neither have read the Bible. It nowhere states the Earth is the center of the solar system or universe... That belief is the fabrication of the church. You both need to get your facts straight on the origins of that belief. The Genesis account makes its statement from the view point of an observer on the Earth...not of the order or sequence of that creation, just the sequence observed from Earth.