At 1:53 you say "Doesn't say anything about giving them back" but if you look at 1:30 it clearly states at the bottom of the flyer that "[the goldsmiths] will Give their Note to restore them to the Owners upon Demand, after they are Coppied. And Honour-able Mention shall be made of their Name. Those that will sell them shall be thankfully paid". A rare slip, and now I'm second-guessing myself ;-)
Crazy that there was a cameo from Anders Celsius. I love how so much of science is scientists sending stuff to each other because they know someone else will appreciate it.
I don't think Olavo is latin for Anders, but Anders Celsius had a cousin named Olof Celsius who was also a professor at Uppsala university. I can't read latin, maybe the letter explains that he was given something by his cousin?
"Helsingland" is a historical province (no longer an existing administrative entity) in Sweden. In current spelling it is written "Hälsingland". It lies in the middle of Sweden, by the Baltic coast.
I am so glad I found her channel. Her Sleepy STEM stories have genuinely helped me get to sleep when I've had a lot on my mind. I hope Dr Hannah Fry has heard her tribute episode
Wow, those stone rubbings were extraordinary. Shame no one knows quite what to do with them, they seem like a fascinating document, in a vault filled with fascinating documents :)
at 6:02 the top writing looks like "questo è Grande quanto il Vero", literally "this is Big as the True" or basically "this is life-size" or something like that
Ediacara Fauna: soft bodied organisms from approximately 630 - 542 million years ago that were fossilised. Not that common, but found all over the world, and named after the Ediacara Hills in the state of South Australia.
Yay, Ayliean! Interesting take, to see stone as nature's archive. Wonder if there would be technology to preserve information for millions of years other than carving it into stone. Also, that level of detail in the illustrations is amazing!
Imagine all of the information and culture that will be utterly lost to historians 1000 years from now because we only recorded it in digital form. For reference, the books in these archives are about 200 years old, but magnetic hard disk drives should lose about half their data after only 100 years even without physical damage.
4:42 this is definitely some late viking age writing, I see nordic runes mixed with latin. I guess Norwegian vikings, given these were found in Britain. Someone probably already mentioned this in comments. I shall have a go at deciphering it.
The rubbing of the inscription looks to be Oscan (or something else using an old italic alphabet). In that case, it may have been the right way round in the first place.
Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish) is over 36m long. A lot bigger, although much lighter, than an elephant. But it makes me believe a jellyphant is not implausible.
Any new species needs a good latin name so what about Bradyensis Keithicus aka the jelephant? I know those latin suffixes have a specific meaning but I'm not a scientist. I just like the way it sounds.
Why would information on rock inscriptions need to be "classified"? Hopefully I'm just not interpreting that correctly. I mean, I guess they can't be "classified" in the security sense if you're about to open them up on a RU-vid video.
I recently watched the following video which debunks the popular idea that wearing gloves for handling books and artworks is recommended ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i3Qo0Go8DA4.html (English subtitles are available). I found it very interesting and I highly recommend it. With this in mind I noticed that you were only wearing gloves some of the time, which now makes total sense to me, but also leaves me wondering why: since it popularises a misconception, why did you put them on in the first place; why is a gloved hand the "logo" of this channel; but also whether or not you have covered this topic on this channel in the past (it doesn't seem like it but I am not very good at searching videos on RU-vid). I would be interested to know if there is a slight difference in policy between the Royal Society and the library of Versailles, or maybe even a difference of opinion. That would be interesting.
If you watch more videos on this channel you'll see that they generally don't wear gloves when handling books and I believe they've mentioned why on several videos: at least, they usually make a point to take them off.
I would like to add that the gravity of the matter is not proportional with the length of my replies ;) I would simply be curious to hear Brady's take on this as a video maker (or Keith's as a librarian)
This isn't a particularly helpful comment, but I do remember watching one or two Objectivity videos where there is some discussion of the gloves. They were probably early in the series and I can't recall which ones. I feel like they are required for handling some artifacts at the library, but these are not necessarily paper documents.
