Seizing my interest at every moment and keeping it, and answering questions I didn't know I had...as usual. Killer video. Jeremy is a superlative explainer.
Bro you are legend. I saw this video by chance, when i was looking for a Catalan Atlas and this video is an absolute Masterpiece. I saw your other videos and all of them are WORK OF ART.
In less than eight pithy and comprehensible minutes I finally better understand what years of public school, a bit of college, and a variety of books couldn't get my brain to visualize, much less retain the scattered facts of. Bravo, and thank you!
The Byzantines produced pretty accurate maps of the known world in the 1290s, almost a century before the Catalan Atlas. It would be nice to have a mention of them and the role they played in the evolution of early modern mapmaking in the video, instead of listening to yet another story of "Roman era, then Christian West vs. Islam" (with some Jewish contribution thrown in). Otherwise the video is fun and well-made.
Thanks for the note and the kind words. Do you know the name of those maps, the explorers or cartographers, or where I could learn more about them? I'd love to do more research there. I'm also well aware that I completely ignored all of the knowledge happening in Asian countries at this period.
@@shub Hi, you'll find a good overview of late Byzantine mapmaking (.i.e. 13th c.) in: - Stella Chrysochoou, Ptolemy's Geography in Byzantium - Alex papadopoulos, Exploring Byzantine Cartographies. Some images of Byzantine world maps are available on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_(Ptolemy). P.S. I'm not sure what you mean with "Asian countries", but Byzantium was always situated on the nexus between Europe and Asia, straddling Southern Italy, the Balkans, the Aegean and Asia Minor.
@@shub first sorry by my poor English, the name of famous geographer called sheikh charif idrissi was born in Morocco Tanger city, and traveling with his knowledge to Italy lives there in the Castel with the king Roger 2, and then he designed the most map clearly and big without faults, which still nowadays used in world university, and developers created a software with his name called idrissi 32 a big software used in the world
wait a second so Ptolomy calculated earth size and after 1300 years Colombus was using his measurements to travel???? after 1k 300 years :D what he was thinking? what they was doing more then thousand years ??? it is crazy just to imagine so many years living and not knowing another words existing parallel to known world so many civilizations with all knowledge and stuff to trade and so many different culture all this time they was living in peace
NO - that's an incorrect synopsis! Columbus read Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly's "Imago Mundi," which gave Alfraganus' estimate that a degree of latitude (at the equator) was around 56.7 miles. Columbus did not realize this was expressed in longer Arabic miles rather than in shorter Roman miles - it was Columbus' own error to assume the correct ancient measurements employed the Roman mile. Thus Columbus estimated the Earth circumference at 19,000 [modern] miles, rather than the actual approx 25,00 miles. 19,000 miles was not the standard view in his time & quite a few people, quite rightly, pointed & laughed. Columbus was stubborn & not very bright - his mind was closed to data he didn't like.
indiand in Vedic Era 21000 years BCE knew that World is Round In Hindi called BHOOGOL where Bhoo means earth and Gol means round Even they made sea voyages toward SEA till SA by just seeing position os stars .But invaders tried to nagate all earlier knowledge and replaced it with their own unverified so called knowledge
Thank you. I'd limited my research to Western innovations, and I can fully admit that I should have conditionalized it to 'In Western culture' when talking about Aristotle. I'm really curious how different groups in the east and west were independently developing their view of the world, even beyond the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures I dipped into here.
As a hearing impaired person, I hate when subtitles don't match what's being said in the video. That said, Loved the video nonetheless, super interesting and looking forward to a lot more. New fan.
In Indian old gurus we say Rishi that found all things in our four books call four Vedas please read it than you ask any questions if you have I surely after read Vedas you don't have any questions I promise and gaarranty
