Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science #1
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at / crashcourse
We've been asking big questions for a really long time and we've all wanted to explore how we've sought to answer those questions through the centuries. Questions like, "What is stuff?" and "Where are we?" have inspired people all over the world to investigate. So lets dive in and see how we, as a people, have tried to figure this stuff out in this first episode of Crash Course History of Science!
Thanks to the following Patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever:
Mark Brouwer, Nickie Miskell Jr., Jessica Wode, Eric Prestemon, Kathrin Benoit, Tom Trval, Jason Saslow, Nathan Taylor, Divonne Holmes à Court, Brian Thomas Gossett, Khaled El Shalakany, Indika Siriwardena, Robert Kunz, SR Foxley, Sam Ferguson, Yasenia Cruz, Daniel Baulig, Eric Koslow, Caleb Weeks, Tim Curwick, Evren Türkmenoğlu, Alexander Tamas, Justin Zingsheim, D.A. Noe, Shawn Arnold, mark austin, Ruth Perez, Malcolm Callis, Ken Penttinen, Advait Shinde, Cody Carpenter, Annamaria Herrera, William McGraw, Bader AlGhamdi, Vaso, Melissa Briski, Joey Quek, Andrei Krishkevich, Rachel Bright, Alex S, Mayumi Maeda, Kathy & Tim Philip, Montather, Jirat, Eric Kitchen, Moritz Schmidt, Ian Dundore, Chris Peters, Sandra Aft, Steve Marshall
--
Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook - / youtubecrashcourse
Twitter - / thecrashcourse
Tumblr - / thecrashcourse
Support Crash Course on Patreon: / crashcourse
CC Kids: / crashcoursekids
I LOVE this idea. With Hank at the helm too, I cannot wait!!
This is definitely a labor of love for Hank (all of us really) but he's super excited :D
- Nick J.
Vikings488
What is your zodiac
what a great topic!
i love god it’s one of them probably
We had WHAT in medieval Turkey?!?!?!?!
Gotta love that new spin on the crash course theme.
Thanks. Michael Aranda does it for our shows here in Missoula :)
- Nick J.
CrashCourse I’ll be sure to check him out. I really dig the themes, thanks.
+CrashCourse Oh Wow! I didn't know he did each new rendition!
All these years later, this is still my favorite Crash Course. I still rewatch it again every few months.
Crash Course is awesome, adding new shows often. Keep up the good work! :)
Still it's pretty amazing that they do this.
Ni Peng You
What is your zodiac
i love god Sagittarius. Why?
Holy crap, history of science used to understand _diverse_ ways of thinking and building knowledge? The social and political aspects of science? A course that is effectively my oft-dreamed Crash Course Epistemology?
*COUNT ME THE HECK IN*
Guilherme Carvalho Bruh
@David Miorgan The good thing with replies like yours, especially when they come _two years_ late, is that they are their own undoing. Please, do carry on. Your usefulness to the discussion is absolutely remarkable.
@David Miorgan He's just expressing his opinion, chill
I finished the first class,real helpful
believe me never been collage but I m getting it..thank you.
Thank you so much. As an engineer and self identified scientist I always appreciate what I can learn from and teach others by watching Crash Course. This subject in particular is very important, and much like your other subjects will go a long way in showing just how interconnected all subjects of knowledge are.
Engineering is a "science discipline." It can be seen as the ultimate of applied science.
That being said, of course an engineer is a "scientist"
Yes, engineering is an applied science; however, it lacks many of the qualities that define a "pure" science. I don't think anyone here would disagree that there definitely is a difference between engineering and science though there is undoubtedly a shared "backbone." As a engineer, at my current job, I do function as both a scientist and an engineer; however, there are also people I work with that only focus on the engineering (problem solving) aspect with no function within the scope of their work to perform the auxiliary duties that would normally be qualified as "scientific" in nature.
@@Archie11587 You'll probably find that it's just nitpicking nomenclature. As it turns out, science is both applied and pure; as is engineering. The scientific method is not all it's cracked up to be, peer review is full of holes, and pure anything should be taken with a grain of salt. Hope it lived up to your expectations, this opening video gives great info.
SO HERE FOR THIS! history and science are my two faves and I hate that you have to pick either humanities or sciences or English or whatever when everything is connected and effects each other. got bell notifications on now yeeet
rhianne try anthropology
Jediya Rahim - Danford I like to be employed ngl
I did not think I needed this course in my life... until it came out. Thank you for making and sharing this for free! You people are a real Godsend and I don't know what I did without CrashCourse.
Omg I love this channel! I try to watch a video a day of yours!
I'm so glad to see yall pick this for your next series! I can't wait to watch it with my kids! As always, thank you for everyone's hard work!!!
I will absolutely watch every one of the episodes in this series multiple times. Hank, this is brilliant
I love how you can tell how excited Hank is to be doing this series!!! I love a happy boi
YES!!! I love learning about the history of things. I see myself watching this series several times.
This is instantly my favourite CC series of all times.
I am so excited for this series, thank y'all so much for giving me great reasons to think critically and philosophically about the world in a deeper way
Can you do Crash Course: Music Theory
+
+
+
Nullius in Verba - On no ones word. What a truth that is!
Not that modern science follows this idea, unless you can do genomics or particle physics in your kitchen?
It does follow Nullius Verba. That's the point. Truth is only found in experiment tested hypothesis which through deep knowledge and intelligence become proven theory. At no point in science is some ones word taken as truth, except for those already proven and accepted laws that have been rigorously tested. Science does't care about which truth is revealed, just that the truth is revealed, or at least as close to it as we can find.
Did you pay attention to the video? The motto originally referred to the ability of *anyone* to reproduce an experiment and ascertain the truth of the matter for themselves. You and I cannot do this with modern science, and to be frank it's an ideal that was never really ever in practice.
It has always been in practice. That's why scientific articles follow a standard format of Background, Hypothesis, Methods, Results, and Discussion. With an understanding of how the original scientists conducted the experiment, and given the same equipment, sample, protocol, etc., you would expect to achieve the same result. The idea that anyone can reproduce an experiment doesn't mean that all experiments are economically or practically easy to achieve. That's why experiments are important to do in the first place, to test a hypothesis while controlling as many factors as possible to see if a relationship between two variables still holds under scrutiny.
Except that if you or I or anyone without a multi-million (or billion) dollar lab can't reproduce the experiment, then it's totius in verba.
This was even an issue in the seventeenth century - try reading *The Leviathan and the Air Pump*.
I’ve been waiting on this! I’m looking forward to the rest of the series!!!!
I remember being at the start of Crash Course and its been a long journey which I hope will countuine, and to see you do a new thing is amazing!
Bless Crash Course! and thanks for every member of it.
You get a Crash Course and you get a Crash Course, everyone gets a Crash Course!
Neok T on this blessed day Hank is Oprah
Where’s my crash course?
I love knowing about the process! Can’t wait to watch all this series!
Hank, you are simply THE BEST host not only on CC but in any youtube educational channel. I've seen CC Philosophy three times now and I foresee I'm gonna love this show.
Thanks people of CC for all that amazing knowledge you share with the world.
Side note: CC Arts Histoty (and apreciation) would be astonishing. I'd jump into the CC Music History claim wagon, tho I'm too much of a music lover and music geek to realize it's beyond impossible try to compress that into a single show (unless it expands several seasons like Literacy).
Anyway, thanks CC for everything.
Yes!...this is gonna be awesome!
Hey CrashCourse!
I love your channel! It has helped me a lot in my studies. Do you think you could maybe add a Math Segment? That would be really awesome! Keep up the good work!
I'm super excited about this new série!! Thank you for bringing knowledge everywhere one the planet!
Wow, the level of depth and complexity in this intro, as a physicist myself, was found to be intellectually satisfying. Subscribed.
At long last. When Crash Course finally delivers. This channel will never get old. Love your work guys.
This was really awesome, looking forward to the rest of the series 😊 - although I definitely would be the first to stick my hand up and say I’m incredibly ignorant about A LOT.
We, collectively, know nothing, Jon Snow. Here's hoping we can change that.
Sometimes, knowing what you don't know, is more important than knowing what you know.
There is no shame in ignorance -- it is easily cured (such as by watching this channel).
The shame should be reserved for those who willfully maintain their ignorance (= stupidity) to the detriment of all.
I think my scientist parents started cultivaating this attitude -- to be aware that I DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING -- from my earliest memories. Now if only we could get everyone to realize the truth of this state of ignorance !
Feeling that you're ignorant and just being here learning says many positive things about you ^_^
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS SERIES THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT.
Omg! This series is soooo needed! When I was frustrated with Calculus back in 11th grade (or whenever I started calculus, I can't remember at this point), my math teacher showed me a problem of calculating tangents prior to calculus and it helped me understand the context of what we were actually doing. I'm so glad this exists!
Tuesday I signed up for Patreon to support this channel. This. Is. Why. 🙌🏾
Excellent to include the evolution of science in India and other countries. Too often we hear the same old names. Great stuff!
So excited to see you back Hank! Love all your work.
love your videos. Very much looking forward to this series.
I actually got goosebumps because I'm SO excited about this topic
So hyped for this series!
Thank you for everything you post!! I am a high school chemistry and physics teacher, and I'm very excited to learn and incorporate more diverse scientific history into my courses!!
Finally this video has answered my questions which are yet to be answered. Cant wait for the entire episodes. Love you HANK
Crash course is real revolution in education.
Hey, I notice a baby blue fish on up right corner, do you breed your fish hank.
An someone who focused on philosophy of science in university, I'm glad to see this important subject getting attention at Crash Course. The shout out to Kuhn and Foucault gives me a huge confidence boost that it's going to be of good service to the viewers. On the other hand, the idea that we need to "science" out of ecological collapse could be a huge red flag for the tone of the series. I hope it doesn't fall into techno-optimism too deeply and approaches science with a healthy skepticism despite having to be careful around those who abuse science like anti-vaxxers, those against GMOs, or flat Earthers / creationists. These positions generally can't really be reasoned with - so a better approach is always to shatter faith and religiosity within science than those who irrationally fear or reject it. Quite a monumental task, of course, but one I'm hoping to see Crash Course navigate well as they serve as an introduction and first impression for often propagandized and dogmatized history of science.
I agree Metadigital, thanks for your comment. I posted something similar above. This series has a great opportunity (and responsibility!) to show the limitations of the scientific approach to understanding reality. There are many roads to Truth, and science is always provisional (as Kuhn has showed us).
I wish I could like this comment twice.
I don't think you know Hank that well; the anti-vaxxer thing and the science the heck out of it to better the environment is his thing; just because it is, though, doesn't mean it's bad science; it's just his way; and you can feel ... looks up and sees your comment was 9 months ago .. oh, well. Hope it all fell together for you
amazing video dude!!! can't wait for the series :D
Judging from the title and introduction, this might just be the series I've been looking for!
Learning about the world around us is fascinating and it's amazing how certain great discoveries were made merely by accident!
This is going to be an amazing series. As an enthusiastic amateur epistemologist, Thank you Hank.
Yeah!!! So happy for another crash course with Hank! Can’t wait for the engineering episode.
Great to hear you're also looking at the social aspects of science! That's a topic that doesn't get enough love!
LOVE IT!!
I was waiting so long for this! Thank you Hank! And as always LOVE the into.
Will John be making a new series too?
Ooh,I really hope they discuss the four humors theory of disease,I know it's incorrect,but I always found it fascinating.
If nothing else, it's important because it was a sort of stepping stone on the road to where we are now. You could say the same about phrenology, for example.
Pretty sure we're gonna :)
- Nick J.
It's not incorrect. It is just a different paradigm, just as western science is one paradigm that takes itself as king. There is still Ayurveda in the modern day which treats disease in a very similar model, has answers to things western science is only starting to rediscover and likely influenced the Greeks in developing their system. In fact surgery and most people looking at the history of medicine recognize it as the birth of surgery. I really hope if they look into these ancient models of disease they actually try to understand how they worked.
+TheDarshanProject
Nulluis in Verba.
Prove it.
I think I'm gonna like this course a lot.
It's 2024 (May) and I'm watching the crash course videos again. Hank and John, I don't think you'll ever see this comment, and that's ok. But you guys are the best thing that happened to science. And literature. And philosophy. And mental health. I watched countless vlog brothers videos over the last few years through my depressive phases, and cried and laughed and learned so much. And now I'm doing so much better, I decided to go back to the crash course playlists to continue learning. I'll be forever grateful for the mark you've made in my life.
This is going to be awesome! I am so excited for this series of videos!
Ive been wanting this course all my life and i didnt know until now 🤓
So ready to learn 😁
Sounds like your best video series so far! thanks!
Once again, I'm really looking forward to this. History and science are two of my favorite subjects!
Woo, more science with Hank!
Nerdfighters who like podcasts AND history of science: Two great podcasts are Bedside Rounds and Legends of Surgery - both talking about how we got to the medicine we do today! Both are accessible to non-medical folks, bedside rounds more so.
Sawbones
I’m sooooo excited for these series! :) I like the music that goes with it as well
I'm really looking forward to this CC series!
Great idea. I'd like to suggest Crash course MUSIC THEORY as a thing to do next . I have to decide whether or not to take it next year and would love a high quality show like this to help learn more. I don't know how much he knows about it but hank can play the guitar, so that's definitely a step
They've been talking about music theory for a long time.
Yay Crash Course Music Theory! ;)
I've always wanted a Crash Course: Linguistics, Crash Course: International Relations (since we already have government and politics), Crash Course: Creative Writing and Crash Course: Journalism.
Thank you for this material. I am bringing my students in.
It's really fascinating to know about the history of science and the people behind them. How their curiosities and questions that lead to something that helped shaped our world today will never fail to amaze me. It just really shows how brilliant the minds of humans are. I'm excited to learn more about the history of science and the contributions from different people around the globe.
We may all wonder how things came up in this world. I am certain that all of us were searching the truth about how universe came up. Indeed that world today is full of gadgets by just simply using our technologies we can find truth. It is crazy and awesome to think how people back in days wonder and search for the truth. I wonder if they only have high technologies back then they will much understand everything that jumble to their minds. But ofcourse we know that gathering knowledge is not an easy to do. Ignorance is the reason why we have science right now. Knowledge is gradually and continously gain.
One thing that caught me in this video is the "Nullius in Verba" where in it said that "Dont believe something just because someone tells you it's true. Test out each new hypothesis or educated guess yourself." for me it's like a expression of detemination in order for me to verify all the statements that I encountered into facts, since I believe in the sayings "to see is to believe" and "Knowledge acquired through experience" I somehow relate into this.
I conclude that the searching for the truth of our universe is not at the end right now. Technologies will get more advance and we can easily get through it. Science is gradually and continously gave us unending knowledge.
I like to thank my Instructor in STS for introducing this awesome videos for me. As a future Sciences teacher I will make it useful for me and to my future students.
History and Science are part in our life this is how we shape our world even the universe.
Now I'm really excited to the next episode.😊
it feels like were travelling through time in just a video discovering new facts about the world and science itself. waking up my curiosity and eager to learn more. "Nullius in Verba" was never taught at school and its interesting to know about it!
"The more you know, the more you realize you dont know." The qoute is true which is there are many great scientist or natural philosophers in the past. Because they think logically and seek more knowledge in all of our surroundings. "Knowledge really is power. The power that knowing stuff gives the knower exactly why we should study history of science." Science is very complex topic, just by learning about the world around us is fascinating and it's amazing how great discoveries were made merely by accidents.
Just what I need. I love this channel. Thanks Hank.
Great start! Really stoked for this course.
When I saw this video I immediately thought, this BETTER be taught by Hank. So happy
Tycho Brahe's nose area, after the nose was gone, was a gold and silver alloy of a similar shape affixed to his face. I'm not surprised he spent 20 years observing the night sky.
I took a course in the History of Science in university, it was one of my favourite courses. I’m so excited for this series!
This is a great course/series! Thanks for doing this.
"Science like nature, must also be tamed with a view towards its preservation"
-Rush, "Natural Science"
Hank calling Darwin "my Dude" made my day :D.
The enthusiasm for learning that CC embraces is one of the most warming things that the internet has to offer.
What a fantastic idea for a series. I can't wait!
When will y’all make an art history crash course 😭😭
I hope there will be a episode on specifically the history of math!
Ann Zheng There's a BBC podcast on the history of maths if you're interested
+
If crash course doesn't cover actual math, why would you expect them to cover its history?
This couldn't have been better. Knowing the history of science will link my emotions to the subject. Thus forming better memories. Keep it up Crash Course. You are informative, entertaining, and useful.
I'm about to start binge-watching this, but this introduction alone got me so excited as I haven't felt in a very long time!
Glad to see you've taken on this project. I think the history of science is fundamental to anyone truly understanding science. I am curious for some response. The motto Nullius in Verba - "On no ones word" is truly fundamental to scientific inquiry, but it seems some non-scientists have taken this a bit too literally. The body of scientific knowledge is so vast it's impossible for anyone to investigate every "truth" beyond the word of experts, and this results in some lay people refuting such irrefutable events as the Apollo Moon landings by effectively claiming "we cannot take NASA at their word". You have a whole cast of people using scientific language to subvert and bastardize legitimate scientific explanations and achievements. Even the very unscientific hard creationist movement of men like Ken Ham uses scientific language with an air of mistrust for the word of legitimate scientists, and this extends to politicians who dispute evidence of climate change with a simple dismissal. My comment has devolved into a rant, but any thoughts on teaching students how to respect the conclusions of experts when they don't have the time or ability to test the explanations themselves?
Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" pretty much undercuts the idea that science tells us at thing about Truth, and the idea that science tells us about an objective world.
kylerm18 well Kuhn may show that we may not reach the Truth with a capital T, but he clearly argues that some paradigms or methodologies will be closer to that elusive Truth than other models.
epic0wnag I don't see any evidence of that in his book, nor in his later writings. He wrote that there is a paradigm, that paradigm grows, it reaches a crisis, a scientific revolution occurs, and then a new paradigm comes along and inevitably experiences its own crisis.
In his other writings, he talks about how all we can get to (in science) is an intersubjective agreement, which most people call "objective." We have a criteria "accuracy, consistency, scope, simplicity, and fruitfulness," and these are our values in a paradigm. Some paradigms are better in some areas and worse than others, and we pick a paradigm that matches our shared scientific values at the time.
Later philosophers co-opted this idea and said that paradigms get better at reflecting truth, but Kuhn seems to suggest that we just get stuck in a paradigm and believe it's true, whether or not it is the case.
This video (and upcoming series) esa sorely needed ... thank you
YES!!! Can't wait!! So excited for this series!!
Ah, 'science-ing', one of my favourite activities :)
Please make a series of anthropology.
Can't wait, I love science history. It is going to so entertaining to see Crash Course's awesome graphical explanation of it.
Crash Course is one of the greatest edutainment youtube channels out there. Super excited for this new series!
Honestly, if you didn't want to keep it to the usual 40-50 crash course episodes, this series could easily go for 100+ episodes.
But we get it Hank you have other things to do or whatever... pfff ❤❤
Who here wants CrashCourse: Continental Philosophy - German Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Poststructuralism and Postmodernism? 😁
By far, this is the best venture of the VlogBrothers. I am excited. Will this course also tackle on the evolution of journal articles? Again, thank you so much for this +vlogbrothers.
This is exciting! This topic first sparked my interest with James Burke’s Connections series. I really appreciate how Crash Course always gives a broader context by Giving a variety of peoples, cultures, time periods etc. equal footing in their discussions.
I hope you can reveal what Time is, and if it really exists.
Study Bio/Chem A Level?
*Crash Course comes out*
Well that lasted long
Kind of like me when one of my subscriptions post. Bye homework! Joking there, I only open the notification if it's something I'm interested in. ;)
Watching their biology and chemistry Crash Course series counts as both procrastination and revision. They base it on an American standard syllabus but it should be fairly similar to the way A-levels are taught.
+Me and I definitely! They cover most of the things we cover here
Can you add Arabic translation?
Thanks 😁😁
YEESSSSSSS
I was fortunate to take a course in college called "History of Landmark Discoveries" that sparked my love for historical astronomy and science, so I'm super pumped for this series! Thanks, Crash Course!
I am SOOOOO excited about this series!!
If the Royal Society excites you, the channel Objectivity takes regular looks into their archives with their chief librarian, some of the stuff in there is fascinating.
+
Crash course music theory
That would help me as a musician a lot. ;)
Ohhh yess!
I would love that!
I have studied it a bit on my own, but you can always learn more. :)
There’s already enough music theory on TH-cam imo, I’d much rather see a crash course history of world music!
Oh please!
it looks like there is gonna be lovely new series. looking forward for this!
The first cc series that I’ve been really excited about since cc astronomy
Are you going to talk about Rosalind Franklin, the true mother of the double helix?
The more knowledgeable I become the less I understand in life's complexity. Everything is just so chaotic and it's all happening at once. CC helps but life is just awesome to the mind....
Any thought's?
"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know"
This quote is true. It's typically the ignorant who think they know everything. People who legitimately know more about a topic, know that there are many more things to learn about it.
Also... the reason I do not have that quote attributed to anyone: I don't know who originally said it. There are so many claims online for who said that(or the first variation of it, as there are some variations)
Socrates was probably the first to formulate this idea. We know nothing, but at least now you know that you don't know.
Absolutely brilliant! I also love this topic
Im uber-excited and delighted to watch every bit of this new series! Thanks for deciding to do a series on the history of the natural sciences! It all sounds groovy to me! -dw