The Most Important Science Book Ever Written

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  • @Natibe_
    @Natibe_ ปีที่แล้ว +1496

    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
      @Darth_Tasty ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Straight up!

    • @jan_phd
      @jan_phd ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @johnwilliams1621
      @johnwilliams1621 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@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
      @jan_phd ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @timewave02012
      @timewave02012 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @thomascaldwell184
    @thomascaldwell184 ปีที่แล้ว +226

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

    • @gerarbendfeldt
      @gerarbendfeldt ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You mean a one life build?

    • @andybrown4284
      @andybrown4284 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @DavidKnowles0 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @StruggleButtons
      @StruggleButtons ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @klausolekristiansen2960 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

  • @tested
    @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Thanks to Brady Haran for bringing us to The Royal Society! You can find his Objectivity videos at th-cam.com/users/ObjectivityVideos
    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_
      @Rachel_M_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @DForce26
      @DForce26 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @achuck4321
      @achuck4321 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @19TheChaosWarrior79
      @19TheChaosWarrior79 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just amazing

    • @snafu2350
      @snafu2350 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @wernerviehhauser94
    @wernerviehhauser94 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    When talking about Newtons Principia, we should not forget the person who immensly helped spread it - Emilie du Chatelet. Not only did she translate it to French (a popular language among aristocrats in continental Europe), but she combined Newtons math with Leibnitz' notation and advancements in calculus and pointed out a flaw in Newtons argumentagtion where Newton considered Energy to be proportional to v, whereas it is actually proportional to v^2.

    • @chewyfoks1840
      @chewyfoks1840 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      link to a paper would be great Werner!

    • @wernerviehhauser94
      @wernerviehhauser94 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@chewyfoks1840 links in youtube are a problem, but just look her up on Wikipedia.
      " en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet "

    • @DVineMe
      @DVineMe ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well, and Leibniz himself... Cause when's the last time he got any credit?

    • @jama211
      @jama211 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very cool!

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Another thing that united Newton fans was their hatred of Robert Hooke.
      Newton himself certainly couldn’t believe that Leibnitz could have independently invented calculus. What convinces me he did is he came up with an entirely different notation for it.

  • @MikeIsCannonFodder
    @MikeIsCannonFodder ปีที่แล้ว +178

    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
      @eveningstar1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @lfcbpro
      @lfcbpro ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Delicioushashbrowns
      @Delicioushashbrowns ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @T33K3SS3LCH3N
      @T33K3SS3LCH3N ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @meltdown6165 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @jonhewlett
    @jonhewlett ปีที่แล้ว +237

    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
      @lesliemartin1520 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

    • @ChineseSweatShoppe
      @ChineseSweatShoppe ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A nice box lined with cardboard 🤷‍♂️

    • @rubenjanssen1672
      @rubenjanssen1672 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ChineseSweatShoppe maby a box to house the archival box

    • @alexandrep4913
      @alexandrep4913 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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
      @xtiansimon ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @theBoonarmies
    @theBoonarmies ปีที่แล้ว +33

    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
      @yt.personal.identification ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @skollrum
    @skollrum ปีที่แล้ว +427

    Brady and Adam need to do so much more collaborations

    • @garyfrancis6193
      @garyfrancis6193 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      “ many” for countable nouns.

    • @jovanweismiller7114
      @jovanweismiller7114 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree!!!

    • @wyomingptt
      @wyomingptt ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@wyomingptt no, this is his twin brother

    •  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Sf_Mason
    @Sf_Mason ปีที่แล้ว +92

    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
      @divinegon4671 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We all owe Isaac a big thank you.

    • @Texicus_Reddicus
      @Texicus_Reddicus ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@divinegon4671 We owe Edmund Halley a big thank you

    • @wonderrob3225
      @wonderrob3225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      God! the actual Principia Mathematica! I could weep

    • @1mlister
      @1mlister 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah you work to design fish I see

  • @lewisphillips573
    @lewisphillips573 ปีที่แล้ว +78

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

  • @ErizotDread
    @ErizotDread ปีที่แล้ว +31

    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!

  • @timparsons3565
    @timparsons3565 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    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

  • @christophermarin9125
    @christophermarin9125 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    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
      @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Right????

    • @aserta
      @aserta ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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
      @davidrenton ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @chicochrish ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @pydepyper
    @pydepyper ปีที่แล้ว +18

    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!

  • @donjones4719
    @donjones4719 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    10:30 You note how interesting the creation of an object/a book is. Later the curator brings out *On the Origin of Species,* which he rightly places alongside *Principia* as one of the two most important books ever written. You'll love this info about the *Origin." First, not many pages of the draft exist and some of the pages were saved for an interesting reason - Charles Darwin's children were given manuscript pages to use as drawing paper and mom and dad kept the kids' drawings! Once Charles had the printer's galleys in hand the written ms wasn't of much use to him.
    But one complete manuscript does exist, a predecessor to the *Origin.* Charles kept it intact because it is the earliest complete expression of his theory of natural selection. He wrote this in 1844, 15 years before the *Origin* was published. It has no title, being known simply as the 1844 Essay, draft. A fair copy also exists, with Charles' corrections and additions. Both of these reside in the Cambridge University Library. I was fortunate enough to work with both of them. He wrote these "essays" in case he died - he knew his idea was that important. We know this because there is a cover letter to his wife. He wasn't ready to publish because he knew there was a lot of missing info and some ideas needed a lot more work. However, the basic ideas and format of the *Origin* are there.
    The original draft in his hand is a wonderful artifact of creation. It is nominally 189 pages long but no accurate page count is possible because he crossed out so much and also pinned half page or quarter page overlays over superseded parts - but the crossed out parts are still there, so we can follow him thinking through a problem. His hand is very difficult to read but fortunately it has been transcribed. The transcription includes every little crossed out word and corrections between the lines and marginalia.
    The transcription is available online at the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History. Each page exists as an image and its transcription.

    • @erk2048
      @erk2048 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The objectivity channel has a series of videos featuring Darwin as well which is worth a watch

    • @donjones4719
      @donjones4719 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@erk2048 Thanks. I stumbled across them last night and then saw your recommendation this morning. The YT algorithm is mighty!

    • @ginojaco
      @ginojaco ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for that.

    • @TallinuTV
      @TallinuTV ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Astonishing. That would really be something to behold.

  • @rishabhaniket1952
    @rishabhaniket1952 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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
      @angusperson4222 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh my heart breaks for you

    • @kirbyculp3449
      @kirbyculp3449 ปีที่แล้ว

      A nightmare in real life, condolences.

  • @yodaspielberg
    @yodaspielberg ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @wonderrob3225
      @wonderrob3225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God! the actual Principia Mathematica!

  • @Fallub
    @Fallub ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @WilliamPitcher
    @WilliamPitcher ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I enjoy seeing Tested cover these hard science objects.

  • @disky01
    @disky01 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @wonderrob3225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God! the actual Principia Mathematica!?

  • @chadwcmichael
    @chadwcmichael ปีที่แล้ว +27

    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
      @averygaron994 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @snafu2350 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @chadwcmichael ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@snafu2350 …We should be friends.

    • @snafu2350
      @snafu2350 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chadwcmichael :) Why not?

    • @diktatoralexander88
      @diktatoralexander88 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @thesleepvampire
    @thesleepvampire ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @ethanhoward389
    @ethanhoward389 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    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
      @alonsoquesada1136 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @carlsaganlives6086
      @carlsaganlives6086 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @scottd9448
    @scottd9448 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @bryansmant870
    @bryansmant870 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've been working my way through Newton's Principia for some time. It is an enlightening and challenging book. Thanks for sharing the original!

  • @ddviper8813
    @ddviper8813 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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
      @lm7_gio ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @pandorski35000
    @pandorski35000 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @AutomaticMark
    @AutomaticMark ปีที่แล้ว +141

    Old Adam meets young Adam.

    • @roygalaasen
      @roygalaasen ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Sniffy1975
      @Sniffy1975 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @aserta
      @aserta ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @dbyrne231
    @dbyrne231 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @chazzyb8660
    @chazzyb8660 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

  • @AbdelOveAllhan
    @AbdelOveAllhan ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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
      @wonderrob3225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      God! the actual Principia Mathematica!

    • @calebm9000
      @calebm9000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @8bitwiz_
    @8bitwiz_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.)

  • @thepoynt
    @thepoynt ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @gregorysharp
    @gregorysharp ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @candamorgan
    @candamorgan ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @transtremm
    @transtremm ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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
      @dp70939 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @tomeullabres5288
    @tomeullabres5288 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

    • @-.-..._...-.-
      @-.-..._...-.- 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @scottmantooth8785
    @scottmantooth8785 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    *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*

  • @NickMach007
    @NickMach007 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @LuisCastillo-tg6xw
    @LuisCastillo-tg6xw ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @MalteForstat
    @MalteForstat ปีที่แล้ว +24

    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
      @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yes! We filmed several videos there.

    • @w0ttheh3ll
      @w0ttheh3ll ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @MalteForstat ปีที่แล้ว

      @@w0ttheh3ll Exactly! 🙂

    • @PaulMansfield
      @PaulMansfield ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Babarudra
    @Babarudra ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @ScottJWaldron
    @ScottJWaldron ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @480pilot
    @480pilot ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @JasonKahn
    @JasonKahn ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I really can't imagine how wonderful it must have felt to hold the first edition of both Principia and The Origin of Species

  • @notyouraveragegoldenpotato
    @notyouraveragegoldenpotato ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @alanholck7995
    @alanholck7995 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @mohamedmounir6770
    @mohamedmounir6770 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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❤️

  • @Joe___R
    @Joe___R ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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
      @johnmcgimpsey1825 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      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
      @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +45

      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
      @snafu2350 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @gerimaple ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tested always educational. Thanks.

    • @davidkiefer6553
      @davidkiefer6553 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @TrustyFishOdor
    @TrustyFishOdor ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

  • @roysteves
    @roysteves 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing those two books on top of each other (12:53) gives me a sense of awe that I don't quite have the words for.

  • @ASparkyB
    @ASparkyB ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @Dlehnerswe
    @Dlehnerswe ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @jeffreykipperman6894
    @jeffreykipperman6894 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @dbx1233
    @dbx1233 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @seanbarnett9406
    @seanbarnett9406 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

  • @jackmeads2559
    @jackmeads2559 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “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 ❤

  • @Sayyadina42
    @Sayyadina42 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @JawbreakerSD
    @JawbreakerSD ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @skunked42
    @skunked42 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @DarkDesertMovies
    @DarkDesertMovies ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @dylanwinestone4625
    @dylanwinestone4625 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @VCT3333
    @VCT3333 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @barryrimmer2103
    @barryrimmer2103 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    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
      @brunetteordie ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I hope someone at Tested sees your comment.

    • @chelldwar
      @chelldwar ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think this is a perfect opportunity!

    • @Schulzffw
      @Schulzffw ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely YES!

  • @wmkm7144
    @wmkm7144 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!"

  • @kdm_entertainment
    @kdm_entertainment ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @WTDoorley
    @WTDoorley ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Books like these are more than books. They're artifacts that connect the present with the past.

  • @billbucktube
    @billbucktube ปีที่แล้ว

    What a fabulous experience! So glad you shared it with us.

  • @captianmorgan7627
    @captianmorgan7627 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @DorifutoRabbit
    @DorifutoRabbit ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

  • @CC-gg4oj
    @CC-gg4oj ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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
      @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was news to us as well.

    • @studioyokai
      @studioyokai ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @Efreeti
    @Efreeti ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm excited to have been born on the 300 year anniversary of the publication of the Principia Mathematica!

  • @blindleader42
    @blindleader42 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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
      @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @blindleader42
      @blindleader42 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.😁

  • @annihull6373
    @annihull6373 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sharing this information with the rest of us. blessings.

  • @bune-kwai
    @bune-kwai ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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
      @apodski ปีที่แล้ว

      He would be a superb bust to have around.

  • @kephalai
    @kephalai ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @aussiebloke609
    @aussiebloke609 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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!

  • @anthonyvancampen6729
    @anthonyvancampen6729 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @bsjeffrey
    @bsjeffrey ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @AwakeInAnacortes
    @AwakeInAnacortes ปีที่แล้ว

    What an experience to get to see and touch both of these books!

  • @shookings
    @shookings ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Adam, This is an amazing opportunity to be immortalized in the Royal Society, by making a reliquary for Newton's death mask.

    • @alexandrep4913
      @alexandrep4913 ปีที่แล้ว

      The box needs to be replaced often enough to not contaminate the contents inside contents.

  • @chrisleggatt3240
    @chrisleggatt3240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thankyou tested for bigging up the UK!

  • @Epic_DaVinci
    @Epic_DaVinci ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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.

  • @glyph2011
    @glyph2011 ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel never ceases to amaze and delight. WHAT a video. Astounding. 👍

  • @backwashjoe7864
    @backwashjoe7864 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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".

  • @rustyreckman2892
    @rustyreckman2892 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

  • @gl15col
    @gl15col ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @paulbrennan1268
    @paulbrennan1268 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simply outstanding! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

  • @christophermahon1851
    @christophermahon1851 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @sinebar
    @sinebar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @markirvine6938
    @markirvine6938 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @DeepSpaceSwine
    @DeepSpaceSwine ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @roryoutdoors5431
    @roryoutdoors5431 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Newton is nifty but I'd like to know if Carl Sagan ever wrote a cookbook? "In order to bake a cake, you must first create the universe..." :P

  • @gerryg505
    @gerryg505 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow. Memories. I took a History of Science class in undergrad many many years ago. Of course 'Principia Mathematica' and 'The Origins of Species' were discussed. Part of the reading requirements were ' The Double Helix' and 'The Physicists'. Years after graduating I went back to my campus bookstore to repurchase both. Thirty years later I still have my copy of 'The Physicists'. Unfortunately I'm going to have to replace my copy of 'The Double Helix', again.

  • @ScottKieran
    @ScottKieran ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @meganwyatt1607
    @meganwyatt1607 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @DoctorX17
    @DoctorX17 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @tested
      @tested  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @DoctorX17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tested oh wow! Today I learned :)

  • @joeynelson1609
    @joeynelson1609 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @dylanpritchard4981
    @dylanpritchard4981 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always love seeing Brady!
    I think he referenced being here on Tom Scott’s podcast Lateral!

  • @harbl99
    @harbl99 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Where I am, we'll get to in a minute."
    Huh, if only there was some clue. Maybe on the wall behind Adam. 🤔