The Most Important Science Book Ever Written

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While in London, Adam meets up with Brady Haran (Numberphile , Objectivity) at The Royal Society! Brady takes us down to the archives of this historic science academy where Library Manager Rupert Baker lets Adam flip through the first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica printed in 1687! We learn the storied history of the publication of this groundbreaking text and its significance to modern science. Plus, Adam gets to examine Sir Isaac Newton's actual death mask!
Thanks to Brady Haran for bringing us to The Royal Society! You can find his Objectivity videos at / objectivityvideos
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@Natibe_ Год назад

Showing Adam the most important book in science, then immediately turning around and, without moving, handing him the second most important book has got to be the biggest flex I’ve ever heard of lmao

@Darth_Tasty Год назад

Straight up!

@jan_phd Год назад

Newton was an alchemist. In fact he was just as much a metaphysical philosopher, as he was a scientist.

@johnwilliams1621 Год назад

@@jan_phd +1. John Maynard Keynes studied Newton's notes and then wrote: "Newton was not the first of the age of reason but the last of the magicians"

@jan_phd Год назад

@@johnwilliams1621 What!? You actually READ?! Almost no one else reads any longer. The new dark ages has begun.

@timewave02012 Год назад

@@johnwilliams1621 As for Keynes, if his work was ever rooted in reason, it has since been replaced with magic.

@thomascaldwell184 Год назад

Man, Adam has built the most AMAZING life. He gets to see and be in the most amazing places. Well earned.

@gerarbendfeldt Год назад

You mean a one life build?

@andybrown4284 Год назад

Some places like this do allow members of the public to view their collections, although not quite so up close as this video. Edinburgh has a doors open day and folk can visit the likes of the royal college of surgeons anatomy museum or the early music instruments at saint ceclias.

@DavidKnowles0 Год назад

@@andybrown4284 I was surprise all of these books were being handled without gloves.

@StruggleButtons Год назад

Adam deserves it though, one of the most genuine and positive people in the press public eye. If i were to choose an ambassador to meet Aliens, Adam would be top of the list.

@klausolekristiansen2960 Год назад

@@DavidKnowles0 If you follow Objectivity, you will see that they usually wear gloves. They take them off to handle paper. Gloves greatly increases the risk of tearing the paper.

@jonhewlett Год назад

For those saying that Adam should do a one day build of a storage box for the death mask, the archivists would be VERY cautious about what materials were used, that grey cardboard box may look boring, but its archival quality storage, acid free card etc etc etc. Not at all a simple thing to make when you have to store items in them for the very long term without damage.

@lesliemartin1520 Год назад

Yes, but you know Adam would figure that issue out. That would make it extra fun for him.

@ChineseSweatShoppe Год назад

A nice box lined with cardboard 🤷‍♂️

@rubenjanssen1672 Год назад

@@ChineseSweatShoppe maby a box to house the archival box

@alexandrep4913 Год назад

If anyone can't tell, that isn't some shabby old box. It's a replaced box that is free of all possible degrading chemicals. Meaning it's more important to them that they are able to replace them often enough, than some nifty box.

@xtiansimon Год назад

@@alexandrep4913. Box, formerly containing Newton’s Death Mask. Lol

@christophermarin9125 Год назад

I can't believe that a death mask of Isaac Newton survives to today. Thank you for sharing that. I have a bachelor's degree in physics, but this really drives home that he was a real human being. Wow.

@tested Год назад

Right????

@aserta Год назад

For me it was always the apple story... but maybe because i had an apple hit me in the head as a child sitting in an orchard and later in school relating amused, of the event. I got into architecture, but always held a deep respect for science. However, as you said, his mortuary mask is... well, something else. I don't know how to put it into words.

@davidrenton Год назад

@@aserta the tree from which the apple fell is still alive at Woolsthorpe Manor (Newtons home), it fell down in a storm in 1816, but the majority of the tree was rerooted and is over 350 years old

@chicochrish Год назад

I’m surprised he didn’t offer to make a box for it.

@timparsons3565 Год назад

Archivist: "We keep meaning to make a better box for Newton's death mask, but we just haven't gotten around to it." Adam (levitating, eyes glowing): "I have a particular set of skills..." Edit: Great to see that a couple dozen others had the same idea as me haha

@MikeIsCannonFodder Год назад

I read a copy of the Origin of Species from Barnes and Noble's classics collection. I was amazed how well written it was. Also how easy it was to follow. It was also interesting to see in places where he intuits certain things must exist which essentially turned out to be coarse level predictions of modern genetics. Couldn't help but think "you're so close!" when reading parts of it.

@eveningstar1 Год назад

That would have been my pick for the most important science book ever written

@lfcbpro Год назад

yeah, but it is all fiction, cos the world has only existed for a few thousand years, just ask the religious folk :))))))

@Delicioushashbrowns Год назад

Kinda wild how much we take it for granted today. Can't imagine how mind-blowing this would've been at the time!

@T33K3SS3LCH3N Год назад

The fact that genetics and evolution were discovered independently from each other is so cool to me. Two pretty crazy concepts for the time that happened to complement each other so perfectly.

@meltdown6165 Год назад

My impression is that all those important papers and books are really well written and easy to follow, this is what made them so impactful in the first place. I was reading "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies" and out of Einsteins mouth it all seems really simple and intuitive.

@skollrum Год назад

Brady and Adam need to do so much more collaborations

@garyfrancis6193 Год назад

“ many” for countable nouns.

@jovanweismiller7114 Год назад

Totally agree!!!

@wyomingptt Год назад

Is That the same Brady from Numberphile or whatever? Can't be a coincidence lol.

@oldcowbb Год назад

@@wyomingptt no, this is his twin brother

Год назад

@@oldcowbb Yes, the family was (unsurprisingly) weird in that the parents named both twins the same. ;-P

@ethanhoward389 Год назад

I love that Adam keeps his arms folded around important objects to keep the curators at ease that he has no intentions of touching without permission

@alonsoquesada1136 Год назад

Yet he bumped and almost stopped the perpetual motion machine 😂😂😂

@carlsaganlives6086 Год назад

@@alonsoquesada1136 By mistake he also 'set off' an intricate, almost completed, Rube Goldberg chain reaction 'machine' during a competition, lol.

@rishabhaniket1952 Год назад

I had a first edition of On the Origin of Species which I treasured as a teen and which was gifted to me by my grandad who was a noted Zoologist and has since passed. I foolishly took that book (which had my grandad’s sign and note) with me to uni and it got misplaced there. When I realised it was missing I searched like a madman for a whole week to no avail. I still feel so sad nd heartbroken whenever I remember it. Books are really special nd shud be treasured.

@angusperson4222 Год назад

Oh my heart breaks for you

@kirbyculp3449 Год назад

A nightmare in real life, condolences.

@yodaspielberg Год назад

Seeing Origin and Principia together like that was oddly emotional. That's so cool.

@wonderrob3225 5 месяцев назад

God! the actual Principia Mathematica!

@theBoonarmies Год назад

I love the human aspect of having such an important piece of historical significance like the death mask, in a box labelled by hand in pencil. that its such an informal container really humbles the whole piece, reminds us that this was a person, studied and remembered by other people. I find it immensely comforting.

@yt.personal.identification Год назад

I find it an intriguing insight that when labelling it at the time, they didn't feel the need to give his name. They assumed anyone seeing it would just know who it is. The box is a precious artefact in its own right.

@transtremm Год назад

After writing the, "Principia" Newton had to translate it into Latin in order for it to be published by the Royal Society. Then when members of the Royal Society read the book, the reader had to translate it back into English in order to understand it. Crazy!!!

@dp70939 Год назад

Same today. German scientists write their papers in English and Germans transalte them to German. Latin was the official scientific language at that time so that's why.

@lewisphillips573 Год назад

Objectivity is amazing. Glad to see Adam and Brady at the Royal Society again.

@AbdelOveAllhan Год назад

Newton - the anchor point of history. He united the disparate hypothesis which preceded him and unified the science of physics. His humble brag: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

@wonderrob3225 5 месяцев назад

God! the actual Principia Mathematica!

@calebm9000 4 месяца назад

It’s awe-inspiring to think THE Isaac newton admitting to standing on the shoulders of giants when we consider him the greatest of giants, himself.

@ErizotDread Год назад

I've loved Brady's channels for quite a few years now. Deep Sky Videos, Sixty Symbols are just phenomenal. Brady asks amazing questions, and he has great Professors to explain things in his videos. Extremely interesting and entertaining content!

@pydepyper Год назад

Adam seems to find the most incredible things we never knew we needed to see and know more about. I love learning along with him and also seeing the depth of his knowledge! So so cool!

@chadwcmichael Год назад

Newton spent a lot of his life studying Alchemy too… The Chymistry of Issac Newton is that collection, and it’s an interesting read. People dump on alchemy all the time, but by process of elimination it directly led to our modern understanding about what is and isn’t possible.

@averygaron994 Год назад

It's interesting. Newton contributed some of the greatest scientific and mathematical discoveries in history, but most of his research was complete bunk. It was even known at the time that his alchemical research was nonsense, but he was simply so prolific that even the relatively small amount of wheat among his chaff was incredibly important

@snafu2350 Год назад

Yup: the study of science (previously AKA 'philosophy'; now that term has specialised to 'thinking about thinking') is IMO the chain of understanding. In progression order, from basic principles to modern understandings: (quantum*) ⇾ mathematics (for how basic interactions work) ⇾ physics (for the forces that create/'destroy'/change things & how those things may interact) ⇾ chemistry (for how those things interact & combine/split) ⇾ biology (for how complex organic molecules can create life) IMO. Further/deeper specialisations (eg geology & tectonics, astrophysics, botany, electronics, medical science etc) 'require' at least basic understanding of those (5*)4 fields to /fully/ comprehend them & how they came to exist *Quantum is placed first because its effects underly (& are almost completely different to) macro(/micro) interactions: my quick train of thought here is logical progression.. but quantum interactions (at our/my current lvl of understanding) don't apply in the same way as macro (or even micro) interactions, so they kinda invalidate the general progression :)(

@chadwcmichael Год назад

@@snafu2350 …We should be friends.

@snafu2350 Год назад

@@chadwcmichael :) Why not?

@diktatoralexander88 Год назад

@@snafu2350 I disagree that it goes strictly in that order, but I agree mathematics comes first. Math is the language of everything, it's the medium we use to define the concepts we talk about, and to record our findings. Physics, chemistry and biology are all linked, but each is their own separate category. I don't view one or the other needing to come before to understand the others. Biology can be seen as genetic code, something mathematics helps us understand. I view chemistry as the root of physics, and both have alot of overlapping themes. Unless what you're talking about is the practical movement of things, which case I would define that as engineering. But both require alot of mathematical skill to understand.

@pandorski35000 Год назад

A death masks story could make an entire episode, i would love it, such an incredible custom of the past

@AutomaticMark Год назад

Old Adam meets young Adam.

@roygalaasen Год назад

Ai. You beat me to it lol 😂 You made the comment one minute after it was released. I stood no chance! 😅

@Sniffy1975 Год назад

I was thinking that too, they could be twins, right down to the style of glasses worn 😂

@aserta Год назад

This is ridiculous, now there's two of them!

@Joe___R Год назад

It seriously surprised me that you two were handling them with your bare hands. No white gloves, no page turners, just clean hands, and trying to not lick your fingers when flipping through the books. Old dooks, especially handwritten ones, are always something special to look at.

@johnmcgimpsey1825 Год назад

I've been told that this is the preferred handling method now because gloves can give a less tactile feel that could lead to bending or tearing.

@tested Год назад

Wearing gloves to handle old books and papers is an old school of thought, since revised: blog.library.si.edu/blog/2019/11/21/no-love-for-white-gloves-or-the-cotton-menace/

@snafu2350 Год назад

While licking fingers is a definite no-no WRT old books (saliva enzymes leading to destruction of the 'paper' substrate/writing), I'm surprised that potential tears are a higher concern than guaranteed natural skin oil (+other, eg salt from sweat) deposition..

@gerimaple Год назад

@@tested always educational. Thanks.

@davidkiefer6553 Год назад

I was wondering the same thing…. My brain was screaming and knew I had to go to the comments for a clarification!

@chazzyb8660 Год назад

I love the fact of Newton being in just a perfectly simple cardboard box with a handwritten notice on it. I spent a long time looking at his 'tomb' in Westminster Abbey, when there for a service some years ago, it is magnificent, but here he is in a cardboard box! Of course Adam would be up for making a vastly improved box, but hey the reality is there to see.

@disky01 Год назад

I'm getting misty just watching this...to have actually seen them in-person must have felt like such a privilege. What a wonderful visit, thank you Adam.

@wonderrob3225 5 месяцев назад

God! the actual Principia Mathematica!?

@Sf_Mason Год назад

As a mechanical engineer, this is mind boggling.. And those 2 books make up about 90% of the methods and mathmatics I use on a daily basis to design compoents.

@divinegon4671 Год назад

We all owe Isaac a big thank you.

@Texicus_Reddicus Год назад

@@divinegon4671 We owe Edmund Halley a big thank you

@wonderrob3225 5 месяцев назад

God! the actual Principia Mathematica! I could weep

@1mlister Месяц назад

Ah you work to design fish I see

@scottd9448 Год назад

I was the project manager to rewire the IT at the Royal Society Astronomy building. That is an amazing courtyard of amazing science. The architecture in and out impressed me the most.

@tomeullabres5288 Год назад

Most important science book ever is, for sure. Euclid's Elements. Once you've stablished that, you can put Principia on number two. Principia was a huge leap forward for science but Euclid's Elements importance is unbeatable. Elements was the main book for all geometry students until late XIX century and we didn't stop using it because it became outdated but because we were teaching the same content through other more approachable textbooks (notice Elements was written before algebra was invented so all demonstrations were done by writting down the deduction process). That book is a masterpiece of logical reasoning and with a rigor that wasn't going to be achieved by anyone for more than 2000 years.

@-.-..._...-.- 4 месяца назад

Yep and the amount of things Newton got wrong is on par with Aristotle. Newton had access to the math and yet he still did it wrong.

@Fallub Год назад

2 incredible RU-vidrs that I have learnt a lot from. Thank you very much to both of you.

@thesleepvampire Год назад

This is so unbelievably cool. I love Adam’s awe and enthusiasm to see these items in person. I feel this way when I’m in art museums.

@ddviper8813 Год назад

I love how no matter how much cool stuff Adam has had the chance to see or do he’s always still so amazed by stuff.

@lm7_gio Год назад

To be fair, i don't think there are many things more important on the planet than Principia. Every scientific and technological discovery/progress of the last 300 years is basicaly based on that book. Anyone who knows anything about science ought to be amazed by this.

@dbyrne231 Год назад

I once got a brief private tour of the Royal Society and saw the original reflecting telescope built by Newton. There was a duplicate (or maybe the second) on public display, but I saw the first!

@Babarudra Год назад

I love working in museums. I have not had the pleasure to handle anything of this caliber, but handling objects of historical significance is such a thrill.

@Sayyadina42 Год назад

"We need to get a better box for this." Bells and lightbulbs begin deploying in Adam's brain . . .

@jackmeads2559 Год назад

“It’s telling two stories, it tells the story in the writing but also the story of its creation” is now my favourite quote about books ❤

@bsjeffrey Год назад

"have some incredible isaac newton crown jewels" is clearly a euphemism.

@mohamedmounir6770 Год назад

I would like to stay there surrounded by all that rare books and tools.🤗🤗 It's too amazing how they protect that treasure from damaging for centuries .so glad to the efforts made by theme. And thanks Adam❤️

@scottmantooth8785 Год назад

*would dearly love to see Adam visit Sir Martyn Poliakoff of Periodic Videos fame...an amazingly professor well worth the effort to stream his videos for hours, if not days*

@christianpoynter7971 Год назад

Having taken several physics classes in college, and physics and astronomy continuing to be interests of mine to this day, this was really cool to see. There's no shortage of amazing, brilliant scientists and mathematicians in history, but it's hard to imagine a single person who was more fundamentally important to those fields than Newton. And to see a cast of his face, and that manuscript, really helps him feel more... real.

@kdm_entertainment Год назад

Surprised he doesnt have to wear gloves to handle those books?

@patrickpaganini Год назад

06:20 I thought that was quite profound "Once you know something and you go back and look at your old brain that didn't know it, you're always astounded you couldn't see it".

@NickMach007 Год назад

So funny to watch this. I've used that plate of the hammerhead shark as an avatar for a long time. I knew it came from that book, but had no idea the connection with Isaac Newton! Awesome stuff!

@rustyreckman2892 Год назад

Principia and A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism are arguably the most important texts in history, but when that dude the casually pulls out origin or species…. Mind blown!

@blindleader42 Год назад

A fair number of comments here about gloves. Fingers can be washed and dried. Gloves turn one of the the most versatile, precise and delicate tools nature has ever produced into a crowbar.

@tested Год назад

Thanks for this. We’ve been trying to explain this to folks as well.

@blindleader42 Год назад

@@tested I suspect this might be the first time a fair number of Tested viewers have heard of Brady or of Objectivity, so haven't had it beaten into them yet.😁

@LuisCastillo-tg6xw Год назад

I love to see a tiny glimpse of the world though Adam's eyes. The way he thinks and asks questions is unbelievable

@candamorgan Год назад

Absolutely incredible - i feel like there was much understated awe in the examination of these historic artefacts, even though Adam is his normal effusive self, some British reticence may have rubbed off!

@ASparkyB Год назад

Brady and Adam are like the geek version of Brother Day and Brother Dusk from that Foundation adaptation with Lee Pace.

@gregorysharp Год назад

Adam I LOVE the subjects you pick. Love it. ❤. This is just another great video. Thank you.

@dbx1233 Год назад

With no cameras, I suppose you would just have to draw your subject. The drawings from the book actually look like a photographs, that's incredible.

@TrustyFishOdor Год назад

I had thought this would be about Whitehead and Russel's Principia Mathematica, so I was kind of confused to get the name right but the book wrong. Incredible to peek into this museum.

@ShenefeltsAudiobooks Год назад

“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”-Dracula by Bram Stoker

@8bitwiz_ Год назад

Plates in a separate section is done because books are bound in "signatures" of a few sheets each, and that puts all the special work for images into one or a few signatures. It also allows better paper to be used just for the images. In the case of the fish book, I see that they are all printed on one side of each page, so there's no bleed-through. (I guess better paper would have avoided bleed-through too.)

@miguelcardozo9935 Год назад

He should definitely be the guy who makes the really nice box they've been meaning to get for the mask.... A really easy way to ensure your name lives on...

@bune-kwai Год назад

That bust of Isaac Newton in legit. I’d love to see Adam have one of his one-day builds be a life-sized bust of Jamie Hyneman!

@apodski Год назад

He would be a superb bust to have around.

@seanbarnett9406 Год назад

It's amazing that Adam has worked his way up to being this amazing science communicator to the point that he can lay eyes and hands on 1st editions of science most important books. It's just insanely inspiring to me what a "normal" person can achieve without needing insane PhD and the like

@ScottJWaldron Год назад

Very cool. Wow, that's something else being able to casually handle artifacts like that!

@DarkDesertMovies Год назад

Thank you Adam, for being Us, going where we can't go. That's as close as I'll ever get to the Pricipia, and that's including any other documentary video because no one else gets into as much, takes the time, just LOOKS AND ENJOYS instead of flashy cuts, so we can drink it all in the same way. This thing you do Adam, it's like you've been given a superpower, to go places mortals can't go, and you've chosen to use it for the greatest good. At least MY greatest good. It was amazing to see these things, thanks for being our eyes and ears.

@JawbreakerSD Год назад

Crazy to come back and see this after Adam has built a new box for the death mask!

@jeffreykipperman6894 Год назад

Adam the museum should habe you build a new box for the death mask. What amazing build that would be!

@wmkm7144 Год назад

0:23 I thought he was going to say: "Around here, one guy is the main man, and that is Keith! Come on out Keith!"

@VCT3333 Год назад

Weird thing is since Geometry was considered the highest form of mathematical argument, Newton wrote it as Geometrical argument in the style of Euclid. Recast as language of Calculus by Emilie du Chatalet and others, it's much easier to read and understand. Chandrasekhar also did a rewrite that's also much easier to follow along. Unlike Origin of Species, Principia is not read for pleasure by amateurs now, or it's much harder to follow.

@alanholck7995 Год назад

I use several of Brady Haran's 'Periodic Table of Videos' teaching my biology classes. 10/10 would recommend.

@barryrimmer2103 Год назад

Wow! What a 'one day build'?! A decent box in which to store Newton's Death Mask, as a gift to the Royal Society. 🙂

@brunetteordie Год назад

I hope someone at Tested sees your comment.

@chelldwar Год назад

I think this is a perfect opportunity!

@Schulzffw Год назад

Absolutely YES!

@captianmorgan7627 Год назад

With the fish book, I'm thinking the ones that are more 'correct' are the more common fish and/or easier to get a hold of to look at.

@notyouraveragegoldenpotato Год назад

You sir sent me down every positive rabbit hole I've ever dove down. At least sparked an idea or curiosity. You're one of those VERY VERY rare people who absolutely deserve to be recorded, emulated, and passed on to EVERY human being alive or to come. I've never seen a soul be so inspiring in SUCH an impact full, and usefull way that betters humanity and the world. To me, most importantly, you sparked a fire that has taken my curiosity and eventually experience to match to places I'd never even heard about. You sir are an absolute legend

@MalteForstat Год назад

Having read (or listened to, actually) Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle series many times, I always find there is a certain familiarity to the Royal Society and Newton-related stories and objects. Like meeting old friends. You half expect Daniel Waterhouse to come around the corner or show up in the margins of a book somewhere... Thank you! Will there be more from the RS?

@tested Год назад

Yes! We filmed several videos there.

@w0ttheh3ll Год назад

It think they mention the fish book near the end of Quicksilver, the fact that they printed too many of them and few people actually want them. Edit: It's in the final Waterhouse chapter of Quicksilver: "[...] a large book of engravings of diverse fishes. [...] The R.S. had printed too many copies of it several years ago. Ever since, Fellows had been [...] employing them as doorstops, table-levelers, flower-presses, et cetera."

@MalteForstat Год назад

@@w0ttheh3ll Exactly! 🙂

@PaulMansfield Год назад

It's like Warehouse 13 only without the magic ;-)

@sd3457 Год назад

I'm kind of amazed that Adam hadn't heard Pepys' name pronounced before, but I guess his fame as a diarist is linked pretty closely with the Great Fire of London which is obviously a much bigger deal on the other side of the Atlantic.

@Epic_DaVinci Год назад

Adam, if anyone is in a position to make a new Box for them to store the Death Mask in, Possibly in period style.. it's you.

@KelseyDrummer Год назад

Omg fantastic idea!

@sinebar Год назад

What I find amazing about Newton is he hinted on relativity. He probably didn't realize how close he was to such a revolutionary leap in the understanding of the universe.

@backwashjoe7864 Год назад

Brady, "We are at the Royal Society... and around here one guy is the main man and that is..." I am now homeless, because I bet the house that his next words were going to be "Keith Moore".

@anthonyvancampen6729 11 месяцев назад

In traditional book making the plates are tipped in, so in the printing there is a blank page that gets trimmed down to a stub and the plates are individually glued in. So in addition to the cost of the printing, whether copper plate engraving or lithographs to make color plates, we have the cost of putting the plates into the volume. Over time there have been several methods for dealing with adding plates to a work. One of the more popular and sometimes used to help defray the cost of printing is the practice of putting the plates in a separate volume. The colorful pictures volume could be sold separately, another method was the sale of copies of the plates.

@Dlehnerswe Год назад

I really hope for more videos with the Royal society and with Brady. And, hopefully with Kieth aswell ^^

@meganwyatt1607 Год назад

His hands flying around when he gets excited stress me out to no end😆 I was waiting for that death mask to go flying..

@skunked42 Год назад

The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson. Just read it please! Also, the idea of a bunch of the Ur geeks keeping priceless items in a hand labeled box is just on point.

@johnyarbrough502 Год назад

There's always an Oh Wow moment being reminded that all these people were at the same place and in the same time. Flamsteed's copy of Newton's Principia was financed by Edmund Halley. Publication was held up because of time to print plates partly financed by Samuel Pepys and Elias Ashmole. I'm put in mind of the Lunar Society around 60 years later.

@gl15col Год назад

Adam needs to make a storage box for the mask of Sir Isaac Newton. How many times has he made gorgeous containers for the things he creates, and it would be properly protected so even a little clumsy fumble wouldn't damage it.

@480pilot Год назад

Simply Amazing,and gracious. Thank You, Royal Society!

@joeynelson1609 Год назад

I would be sweating to be in your shoes with the Principia Adam. Great to see you as an ardent pop-scientist in the presence of and holding THE manual for modern science.

@dylanwinestone4625 Год назад

Brady is great! His other channel Numberphile is just as interesting!

@DirkDwipple Год назад

To hold. To feel. To smell. To read those words of enlightenment. You are a lucky man.

@aussiebloke609 Год назад

0:41 I hope Brady also pointed out Joseph Banks, past president of the Royal Society and the botanist who accompanied Capt. James Cook when he discovered Australia tn 1770. Aussie Aussie Aussie!

@kephalai Год назад

everyone at the Royal Society has such sharp wit and charm to them.. refreshingly unexpected :D

@CC-gg4oj Год назад

Thank you Tested! I stand corrected on the gloves. I will now handle my own books without them on. Thanks for the lovely content.

@tested Год назад

It was news to us as well.

@studioyokai Год назад

@@tested another surprising thing to me: if needing to clean one's hands first before handling something, soap and water is safer to clean one's hands with than alcohol based sanitizers. The Library of Congress literally did experiments on this which you can find detailed on their website! Sanitizer leaves a residue that is damaging to a lot of items long term, and soap, being a surfactant, helps remove all dirt and a lot of skin oils, so it works fine. Thought that was fascinating. Sanitizer is often a fine substitute for handwashing if it's about simply not spreading microbial disease (which was what it's inventor intended it for!), but it's clearly not a complete 1:1 substitute and soap with clean water is still clearly the better cleanser for actually Removing things. Certainly for an archivist! I don't recall I'd they specified what handsoap they were using but I'd be surprised if they didn't.

@toinoi123 Год назад

"If you allow me to just turn around..." Wow.

@markirvine6938 Год назад

Adam should totally make one of his fancy boxes for the Newton death mask on a one day build

@alextopfer1068 Год назад

I love Adam getting nerd sniped about when you would make the death mask

@christophermahon1851 Год назад

There's no way to guess how to pronounce Pepys' name. I was surprised when I first heard it, too.

@davecurry8305 Год назад

I enjoy these episodes about book more than a lot of the builds. But I can’t believe how casually they are handling thes historic documents, and no white gloves either!

@DEVAXTATOR-1 Год назад

thank you so much for showing the world this and i tell him thank you as well for allow us to see this. thank you

@LAZ-org Год назад

Comforting to know if every book in this place was destroyed, with research over time, humanity would rediscover and refine the exact same conclusions contained within.

@ScottKieran Год назад

The books are one thing. But the MANUSCRIPT. A little surprised Adam didn't explode with excitement then. It blows my mind to think of Newton himself poring over the pages, annotating them. He touched pages that Newton touched.

@rdspam Год назад

Damn. I get chills just watching this. Can’t imagine actually holding them.

@Tardisntimbits Год назад

Wow...I am so envious! I love books, I love Science, and I love history and historical artefects, so wow wow wow! I wish I had the clout to be able to see behind closed doors in a museum or scientific stronghold as such. There is so much the public isn't privvy to, and my little nerdy heart desires to see it all.

@DeepSpaceSwine Год назад

As an archive nerd I love these videos. Your journal one was also good, if I can be biased for a moment!

@murasaki848 Год назад

When I saw this video's "most important science book" title with the thumbnail showing the plates of animal drawings, I thought Adam was putting forward On the Origin of Species as the most important book, and I was going to object and say Principia Mathematica is. Good thing I watched it first. 😁

@Dialogue_SC Год назад

Adam's next one day build should be a box for Newton's Death Mask.

@DoctorX17 Год назад

BRADY ISN’T JUST A DISEMBODIED VOICE?!?! Also I’m surprised they didn’t have you wear gloves to touch the antique books…

@tested Год назад

Wearing gloves to handle old books and papers is an old school of thought, since revised: blog.library.si.edu/blog/2019/11/21/no-love-for-white-gloves-or-the-cotton-menace/

@DoctorX17 Год назад

@@tested oh wow! Today I learned :)

@JacobODell_ Год назад

This has to be the single best crossover I have ever seen

@juliocesarpereira4325 Год назад

As soon as I read the title of this video I knew it was either about Newton's 'Principia Mathematica' or Darwin's 'The Origin of Species'.

@tested Год назад

Thanks to Brady Haran for bringing us to The Royal Society! You can find his Objectivity videos at ru-vid.com Also: For those concerned that no white gloves were used, wearing gloves to handle old books and papers is an old school of thought, since revised: blog.library.si.edu/blog/2019/11/21/no-love-for-white-gloves-or-the-cotton-menace/

@Rachel_M_ Год назад

Welcome to Britain Mr Savage. I hope you enjoy your stay

@DForce26 Год назад

I have a playlist of all objectivity video's from 1 to 266... 😊 I watched them all... Pretty good stuff

@achuck4321 Год назад

Petition the Royal Society to let Adam create a death mask box for Newton.

@19TheChaosWarrior79 Год назад

Just amazing

@snafu2350 Год назад

@@achuck4321 or at least a decent display case! I'd do it myself

@privatesocialhandle Год назад

I'm not a scientist or even academically inclined, but this is all amazing stuff.

@homunculous007 Год назад

No gloves????

@persuasivebarrier2419 Год назад

The Royal Book Society of No Gloves says, "No gloves!"

@amber1862 Год назад

More likely to damage the pages when wearing gloves, ironically.

@kevinmbrooks Год назад

Apparently, gloves are more dangerous to old books than clean, dry hands and make it harder to tell how fragile the book is, which can lead to excess force.

@CC-gg4oj Год назад

I concur! I'm in shock!

@homunculous007 Год назад

@@amber1862 Interesting. Many thanks.

@DorifutoRabbit Год назад

An amazing video to see, I never thought I'd see the book. I wonder if they showed you the "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Artes Magicis" if you signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement