Just had a test that covered Brunelleschi's architectural works, glad Scishow decided to cover him! You have made an architecture student very pleased.
We studied this in my Humanities class last year. It was my favorite ever class, with my favorite ever music teacher. Thanks, Mr Defoe for teaching me something interesting enough to be on scishow
water was much to contaminated at the time so it was safer to drink beer or wine. could you please do an episode on the development of clean water in Europe?
"Taking the wine away completely was apparently not an option." Yeah not unless you want to get large numbers of medieval workers, really angry while they're carrying hammers and sharp implements. Not a good idea really.
As a civil engineering major who took a bunch of architectural history classes, this made my day. Brunelleschi is my favorite architect/engineer and I totally freaked out when I saw this posted.
you asked the question i've started to ask in the first 30 seconds of the video. it's nice to know that someones is asking that because i was starting to think that i was over-thinking things.
I'm commenting on an old video but could SOMEONE explain to me why they banned the flying buttresses!? I have been digging around and found the answers; "They banned them because they're enemies used them" but I also found "Their enemies used them because Florence refused to use them" and "It was cos they swore into poverty and buttresses were expensive" which doesn't seem a likely answer since building everything was expensive anyway. HALP?
I visited il duomo in Florence back in 2004, and the tour guide there said that one of Bruneleschi's most important innovations with the construction of the dome was the use of a herringbone pattern for laying the bricks - something else that was never done before.
So this comes out two weeks AFTER my exam on the Renaissance (laughed a bit when you mentioned his other failed contest entry)... Still totally sending this to my professor though!
@@MadameBerryGames lmao I think it's cool you replied I wasn't actually expecting that. I thought you might have ditched this account or forgot about it haha.
For me, this channel has gone from being a weird channel i subscribed to, just because of the fact that it was Hank, to being the most awesome and addictive channel in TH-cam for me! HURRAY! GOOD WORK HANK!
In boring school of Architecture they never taught me anything like this of Brunelleschi, just passed him as another Renascence Architect, now I'm glad I know this guy's awesomeness.
You should do one about Jan Purkinje. He started the first physiology lab in 1842, and discovered communicating cells in the heart and cerebellum that carry his name. Also, Louis Pasteur would be a great one.
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King is an excellent and easy read book on the development of this dome. It includes the competition for the best dome, the designs of the dome, machinery, and much more. I read it in a Renaissance in Italy class and it was excellent. One of the titles of a chapter is the The Ass and The Babbler.
Hank, I find it ironic that you decided to talk about Brunelleschi's dome today. I learned about it in my Humanities class back in January and frankly...you made it much more interesting!!!
@Yue65 no, Leonardo studied under Verrocchio, who designed the globe at the top of the dome, but there are drawings by Leonardo of Brunelleschi's machines, such as the crane mentioned by Hank.
You should definitely talk MORE about how architecture works (more specifically that amazing dome) and other domes and how people got buildings back then not to fall down. And about how the physics of his dome work. That would be cool...Thanks. :)
I would honestly love if you did some astronomy videos on black holes and super/hyper novas. Also, if you could, show how both types of black holes are created.
I always loved the Italian Renaissance because of the synchronicity between art and science in that period. Do a video on Leonardo Da Vinci! He made the MOST exhaustive dissection of the human body, which was not matched for a hundred years, and he discovered something about the heart that was confirmed by science just recently!
I second this! Not that I'm in middle school, and I don't have kids in middle school, but I was there once and I know I would have loved this. The only cool learning videos I remember were Bill Nye and I was in high school by then.
Everything you said here is correct, except about honey comb structure. That stroke of brilliance dates back to the Pantheon and was utilized primarily to reduce the weight of the dome. That alteration is what allowed the Pantheon dome to stand as it is; the world's largest unsupported dome for over 1,000 years. Before the Pantheon and HCS, even smaller unsupported domes collapsed under the strain of their own weight.
For further reading I would suggest the book "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King. It's short, informative and an interesting read, if you like architecture and history.
Fantastic show guys, I'm loving every moment of this and Crash Course! I know that the sciences and world history are more your thing, but I'm interested in learning more about art history in particular. Assuming that you're not going to start a series on that, could you recommend a show similar to yours (you know, fun) about artists and art history?
Great video. BTW, flying buttress was used to support thin outer walls of gothic style churches which have more windows than the prevalent Romanesque style. Gothic churches do not have huge domes like the Duomo of Florence.
This is really awesome! I wanna learn more about Brunelleschi now. Btw, you should totally read 'Pillars of the Earth' if you haven't already. There's some pretty neat stuff about cathedral building!
@scishow I would like to know more about decay processes. How does k-capture work, how does a neutron decay into an electron and proton, and does the nucleus organize into shells like it's electrons do? I definitely would like to know!!!
Romanesque cathedrals never had flying buttresses. What Brunelleschi did was to construct the Dome of the Cathedral without using "falsework". His brickwork design was fabulous.
What about Jagadish Chandra Bose the guy who actually invented the telephone, and discovered that plants are actually alive, and was a freedom fighter against the British Empire. Can you please do a video on him.
@squall7722 Hank presented you with an awesome video about the awesome Brunelleschi and THAT'S what grabs your attention. Did you play the video on mute?
Could you do a video on Fermi? I've seen his name quite a bit: the paradox, the Dark Energy camera, Fermionic Hadrons, ect... but I have no clue who he is. Thanks Hank, and keep up your amazing work
well, gee! Thank you, kind sir, for this wonderful advice. How could I not have thought of that myself? I guess all the reading and learning of the past 20 years must have been completely pointless, when I couldn't even come up with this simple idea... But may I kindly inform you that I did not just read the mentioned article but also a couple of biographies about Tesla et al. and I merely recommended to put those information in youtube clip form so that others could learn about him, too...
If memory serves right, the Dorian Greeks figured out that if they used lighter stones for the roof of a structure the walls would have to support less weight. The Romans applied this knowledge to dome construction by making the top thinner than the base. As for the honey comb structure, I think that was all Brunelleschi.
Awesome video! Wasn't Brunelleschi the person who supposedly smashed an egg against a flat surface, creating a dome out of half of the egg, and presenting it as how the actual building's dome would look?
The skyscraper guy you're looking for is probably Mies van der Rohe. Although he didn't invent the skyscraper, he did pioneer the design aesthetic of glass and steel frame buildings, which is what most people think of when they think of skyscrapers.
Hey Hank, may I make a suggestion? Irrelevant from the subject of Renaissance architecture, would you be interested in making a video about Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy? I would love to hear your insight and opinion on the subject!
Concerning the intro. the history of the development of skyscrapers actually is quite interesting (if you're into urbanistic typal arch. history stuff). Unless you consider the Chrysler Building the first skyscraper (historians don't), in which case it really was someone holding a drawing and saying "hey look at this."
why did you have to post this AFTER art history exam (over the Renaissance) " lol. still a great video, hank. thanks for posting it:-). I am gonna send a link to it to my art history professor :-) .
I would argue that Petrach's writing started the Renaissance. His writing discussed the importance of reading and classics and exploring and thinking and discovering which was sort of what the Renaissance was all about.
Hank, you are pretty fucking cool. I love how frequently you post too. Vsauce is good, but waiting a month or whatever for a new video is just ridiculous. Keep em coming!
Brunelleschi actually proved his idea by having the judges stand an egg up. So normally this is impossible and the judges couldn't do but Brunelleschi showed them how. The way he was able to do this was be barely breaking the egg. The way this is works is when the egg is broken it actually supports itself.
I'm pretty sure that he didn't invent linear perspective, because that cathedral's dome was finished in 1515 and Leonardo Da Vinci used it for The Last Supper which was made ca. 1495-1498. There were also examples of linear perspective beforehand. (I just had a giant Art History mid-term entirely devoted to Renaissance art.)
Just had a test that covered Brunelleschi's architectural works, glad Scishow decided to cover him! You have made an architecture student very pleased.
*8 years ago*
Let the bodies hit the floor
wOaH
this is the best one of this whole series.
Hank is a wizard, drawing awesome landscapes and other pictures in mere seconds with no marker point!
We studied this in my Humanities class last year. It was my favorite ever class, with my favorite ever music teacher. Thanks, Mr Defoe for teaching me something interesting enough to be on scishow
brunelleschi is one of my "heros". it's great that you did a episode about him.
water was much to contaminated at the time so it was safer to drink beer or wine. could you please do an episode on the development of clean water in Europe?
"Taking the wine away completely was apparently not an option."
Yeah not unless you want to get large numbers of medieval workers, really angry while they're carrying hammers and sharp implements. Not a good idea really.
Well when your water would just as easy give you some nasty incurable disease as hydrate you the (mostly) sterile wine was a much better option.
+Michael Price You still can't really take wine away from italians now too, so... yeah he made the right decision
At the time it was safer to drink wine because water could kill you, they even gave the wine water mix to pregnant women to protect them.
I have to say; this may have been my favorite scishow yet.
Best Sci-show so far, It's great to feel your enthusiasm in this one! Best Wishes.
As a civil engineering major who took a bunch of architectural history classes, this made my day. Brunelleschi is my favorite architect/engineer and I totally freaked out when I saw this posted.
Favorite episode so far. More Great Minds, please!!
you asked the question i've started to ask in the first 30 seconds of the video. it's nice to know that someones is asking that because i was starting to think that i was over-thinking things.
I'm commenting on an old video but
could SOMEONE explain to me why they banned the flying buttresses!?
I have been digging around and found the answers;
"They banned them because they're enemies used them" but I also found "Their enemies used them because Florence refused to use them" and
"It was cos they swore into poverty and buttresses were expensive" which doesn't seem a likely answer since building everything was expensive anyway.
HALP?
I visited il duomo in Florence back in 2004, and the tour guide there said that one of Bruneleschi's most important innovations with the construction of the dome was the use of a herringbone pattern for laying the bricks - something else that was never done before.
These videos are awesome but that was by far my favourite one, Filippo Brunelleschi just made my top 10 heroes of history.
So this comes out two weeks AFTER my exam on the Renaissance (laughed a bit when you mentioned his other failed contest entry)... Still totally sending this to my professor though!
*8 years ago*
@@martyc3447 tfw you get a notification for a reply on an eight-year-old comment you don't remember making. dafuq
@@MadameBerryGames lmao I think it's cool you replied I wasn't actually expecting that. I thought you might have ditched this account or forgot about it haha.
@@martyc3447 I use this account to watch miscellaneous videos so my art account only gets other art videos recommended to it. lol
can you make a video about Dante Alighieri I think it's going to be a great topic
For me, this channel has gone from being a weird channel i subscribed to, just because of the fact that it was Hank, to being the most awesome and addictive channel in TH-cam for me! HURRAY! GOOD WORK HANK!
This video made me laugh so much that I have more energy to complete a school project research on Brunelleschi
In boring school of Architecture they never taught me anything like this of Brunelleschi, just passed him as another Renascence Architect, now I'm glad I know this guy's awesomeness.
Excellent video. I like how this is more, historical science, but still totally relevant and fascinating.
There is an article about the Dome in National Geographic this year in March!
Your sense of humor is AWESOME! :D
We should do a Sci show on sight because our eyes are like super awesome!
You should do one about Jan Purkinje. He started the first physiology lab in 1842, and discovered communicating cells in the heart and cerebellum that carry his name. Also, Louis Pasteur would be a great one.
That string of expletives that you had Brunelleschi say to the committee was genius! And I don't usually like swear words.
I definitively want to see more great mind episodes.
Hank is the best quick artist I have ever seen
I really liked this episode, I hope there are more Great Minds episodes coming!
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King is an excellent and easy read book on the development of this dome. It includes the competition for the best dome, the designs of the dome, machinery, and much more. I read it in a Renaissance in Italy class and it was excellent. One of the titles of a chapter is the The Ass and The Babbler.
Hank,
I find it ironic that you decided to talk about Brunelleschi's dome today. I learned about it in my Humanities class back in January and frankly...you made it much more interesting!!!
I'm an art history major and I greatly appreciate this... I love you Hank! DFTBA
Thank you for making this relatable and interesting!
@Yue65 no, Leonardo studied under Verrocchio, who designed the globe at the top of the dome, but there are drawings by Leonardo of Brunelleschi's machines, such as the crane mentioned by Hank.
You should definitely talk MORE about how architecture works (more specifically that amazing dome) and other domes and how people got buildings back then not to fall down. And about how the physics of his dome work. That would be cool...Thanks. :)
I would honestly love if you did some astronomy videos on black holes and super/hyper novas. Also, if you could, show how both types of black holes are created.
I like the concept of "Great Minds", hopefully there are more to come...
All I can think is how this was filmed in october and we are watching it so much later.
I like history when it's presented in a fun way like this :) Back in a school it was soooo boring!!!
I always loved the Italian Renaissance because of the synchronicity between art and science in that period. Do a video on Leonardo Da Vinci! He made the MOST exhaustive dissection of the human body, which was not matched for a hundred years, and he discovered something about the heart that was confirmed by science just recently!
Ahhh Filippo Brunellleschi, how you remind me of Italian Renaissance Art History. I miss that class.
Linear perspective! I LOVE linear perspective! Well, thank you that guy!
Great Minds On Blaise Pascal plz!
I climbed the duomo the other day for class, this is so relevant to my life!
omg i learned about this guy last year!!!! he was so cool i wrote an essay on his work.
I totally learned about this guy when I did my research paper on the Medici last year.
Learned all of that in Art History this semester. Quite amazing
So good and funny
I second this! Not that I'm in middle school, and I don't have kids in middle school, but I was there once and I know I would have loved this. The only cool learning videos I remember were Bill Nye and I was in high school by then.
Best informational video i have ever watched.
an episode all about the Standard Model in particle physics would be the bomb.
One of the greatest Renaissance era architects in MY Scishow?
That's pretty damn awesome!!
Everything you said here is correct, except about honey comb structure. That stroke of brilliance dates back to the Pantheon and was utilized primarily to reduce the weight of the dome. That alteration is what allowed the Pantheon dome to stand as it is; the world's largest unsupported dome for over 1,000 years. Before the Pantheon and HCS, even smaller unsupported domes collapsed under the strain of their own weight.
Wow. That was awesome and super interesting.
Also, I love how Hank's facial hair keeps appearing in Sci Show. It makes me giggle.
For further reading I would suggest the book "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King. It's short, informative and an interesting read, if you like architecture and history.
Great video and I think you should bring back the Gotee Hank!
I learned about this dome in art history, but you made it seem far more interesting.
Fantastic show guys, I'm loving every moment of this and Crash Course!
I know that the sciences and world history are more your thing, but I'm interested in learning more about art history in particular. Assuming that you're not going to start a series on that, could you recommend a show similar to yours (you know, fun) about artists and art history?
I love the beard Hank you should get it back
This should be on TV
Best episode ever guys! I've never laughed so hard about about history, great work!
I love this channel, the videos, you and your awesome brain! I love learning new things, please keep it up!
*8 years ago*
Hank is the most amazing speed artist ever!
I'm doing a project on the cathedral of Florence. This came at the right time!
Great video. BTW, flying buttress was used to support thin outer walls of gothic style churches which have more windows than the prevalent Romanesque style. Gothic churches do not have huge domes like the Duomo of Florence.
I remember watching a documentary on this! It was really good!
This is really awesome! I wanna learn more about Brunelleschi now. Btw, you should totally read 'Pillars of the Earth' if you haven't already. There's some pretty neat stuff about cathedral building!
*8 years ago*
Loved this! I remember learning about him in my history class, and I thought he was really interesting then too.
@scishow I would like to know more about decay processes. How does k-capture work, how does a neutron decay into an electron and proton, and does the nucleus organize into shells like it's electrons do? I definitely would like to know!!!
would it be possible for you to make a video telling us how it is that the domes support each other?
Can you explain how MRI, CT, XRAY, and Ultrasounds work, and the differences between them?
Quick and easy! THANK YOU! Great refreshing info before my exam
I'm so proud of knowing about Brunelleschi before I watched this.
You really need a Sci Show Bob!
Romanesque cathedrals never had flying buttresses. What Brunelleschi did was to construct the Dome of the Cathedral without using "falsework". His brickwork design was fabulous.
Brunelleschi also revolutionized theatrical design (as well as painting) with his single point perspective. Art and science, ftw!
What about Jagadish Chandra Bose the guy who actually invented the telephone, and discovered that plants are actually alive, and was a freedom fighter against the British Empire. Can you please do a video on him.
i love these great mind videos!
@squall7722 Hank presented you with an awesome video about the awesome Brunelleschi and THAT'S what grabs your attention. Did you play the video on mute?
Could you do a video on Fermi? I've seen his name quite a bit: the paradox, the Dark Energy camera, Fermionic Hadrons, ect... but I have no clue who he is. Thanks Hank, and keep up your amazing work
well, gee! Thank you, kind sir, for this wonderful advice. How could I not have thought of that myself? I guess all the reading and learning of the past 20 years must have been completely pointless, when I couldn't even come up with this simple idea...
But may I kindly inform you that I did not just read the mentioned article but also a couple of biographies about Tesla et al. and I merely recommended to put those information in youtube clip form so that others could learn about him, too...
Of course you release this episode the week AFTER I learn about Brunelleschi in art history...
If memory serves right, the Dorian Greeks figured out that if they used lighter stones for the roof of a structure the walls would have to support less weight. The Romans applied this knowledge to dome construction by making the top thinner than the base. As for the honey comb structure, I think that was all Brunelleschi.
Awesome video!
Wasn't Brunelleschi the person who supposedly smashed an egg against a flat surface, creating a dome out of half of the egg, and presenting it as how the actual building's dome would look?
I feel so proud that I remembered this from my Art History class :D
It was no longer the Middle Ages - it was now the Renaissance which was the start of the Modern Era.
New scishow ep-OH GOD HANK TURNED INTO GORDON FREEMAN
Can you upload more "Great Minds" videos? I'm a really big fan of your work, by the way!
I just got done learning about him in my art history class.
The skyscraper guy you're looking for is probably Mies van der Rohe. Although he didn't invent the skyscraper, he did pioneer the design aesthetic of glass and steel frame buildings, which is what most people think of when they think of skyscrapers.
Hey Hank, may I make a suggestion? Irrelevant from the subject of Renaissance architecture, would you be interested in making a video about Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy? I would love to hear your insight and opinion on the subject!
Give us an episode on acoustic biology! Please? Birdsong, in particular, is a bit of an obsession with me.
Concerning the intro. the history of the development of skyscrapers actually is quite interesting (if you're into urbanistic typal arch. history stuff). Unless you consider the Chrysler Building the first skyscraper (historians don't), in which case it really was someone holding a drawing and saying "hey look at this."
why did you have to post this AFTER art history exam (over the Renaissance) " lol. still a great video, hank. thanks for posting it:-). I am gonna send a link to it to my art history professor :-) .
I would argue that Petrach's writing started the Renaissance. His writing discussed the importance of reading and classics and exploring and thinking and discovering which was sort of what the Renaissance was all about.
One of my life goals is to see this church and Florence in general ever since playing Assassin's Creed II.
Hank, you are pretty fucking cool. I love how frequently you post too. Vsauce is good, but waiting a month or whatever for a new video is just ridiculous. Keep em coming!
Brunelleschi actually proved his idea by having the judges stand an egg up. So normally this is impossible and the judges couldn't do but Brunelleschi showed them how. The way he was able to do this was be barely breaking the egg. The way this is works is when the egg is broken it actually supports itself.
I'm pretty sure that he didn't invent linear perspective, because that cathedral's dome was finished in 1515 and Leonardo Da Vinci used it for The Last Supper which was made ca. 1495-1498. There were also examples of linear perspective beforehand. (I just had a giant Art History mid-term entirely devoted to Renaissance art.)