Head Librarian Keith Moore needs his own RU-vid 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.
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 RU-vid 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
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.
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." :)
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
