"Aguaxima, a plant growing in Brazil and on the islands of South America. This is all that we are told about it; and I would like to know for whom such descriptions are made. It cannot be for the natives of the countries concerned, who are likely to know more about the aguaxima than is contained in this description, and who do not need to learn that the aguaxima grows in their country. It is not meant for us either, for what do we care that there is a tree in Brazil named Aguaxima, if all we know about it is its name? What is the point of giving the name? It leaves the ignorant just as they were and teaches the rest of us nothing. If all the same I mention this plant here, along with several others that are described just as poorly, then it is out of consideration for certain readers who prefer to find nothing in a dictionary article or even to find something stupid than to find no article at all."
+Nome di Fantasia no its society as a whole that kills free thinkers and since pretty much all ppl are either religious or secular nowadays he was kinda right
+sooooooooDark 1) you can be religious and still secular. and there are no other things you can be. Either you are secular or you are not. Either you are religious or you are not. 2) secular doesn't mean science. A secular person can still deny all science in existence. Secularism have nothing to do with science. 3) just because a person that believes in science do bad things doesn't mean it's the science fault.
@@inkonmyhands If i were to guess, they didn't have printing back then so it must have been difficult to make a copy of such an immense work especially considering that anatomy is very diagram intensive
+Punita Bhardwaj Are you kidding? In France dissident writers and comedians are still banned from official media and ostracized, check out what is happening to Alain Soral and Dieudonné. The world is fuc_ked up, democracy is never been so in peril.
+RisikoFromTheVault +RisikoFromTheVault These people expressed racist and antisemitic opinions, and were condemned for that. There is no censorship there, just the application of the basic principle of freedom : one's freedom stops where the other's start. You can have your opinions but you can't call for violence toward a group of people.
It's just so interesting to think about that this was the "first wikipedia"! The encyclopedia was a key part to the enlightenment, which just shows us how valuable public knowledge is :)
HAHAHAHA. The aguaxima article is too funny. Also of note, Diderot translated the first ever medical dictionary from a famous (in his time) english doctor. One of the entries of the dictionary listed a unicorns horn as a recipe for a medicine.
Watching your videos, I realize time after time how much French people have marked history haha, that makes me proud of my country! Thank you for the history reminder, even though we study that a lot in France. Your videos make everything easier to remember!
Despite imprisonment and censorship, Diderot collaborated with leading Enlightenment thinkers to create a revolutionary publication. His encyclopedia became a significant milestone in the history of science and education, despite bans by the king and orders from the Pope.
I think Ming Dynasty China has created something similar to an encyclopedia. The Emperor Yongle commissioned Yongle Canon(永乐大典) in 1403 and was completed in 1408. But sadly most of those copies were lost during the Palace fire of 1567, Li Zi Cheng's occupation of Beijing, Boxers rebellion and opium war.
I feel that the last sampled entry quite nicely sums up most TV. It doesn't inform, or help, but its purpose is for those who do not want to learn, or do not need help, but simply want something to watch (read) just to pass the time :)
We can quote Voltaire, Montaigne, Rousseau, all were very good in their arts... but only one of them was an absolute genious out of his time : Diderot. Not enough quoted and red (except in french graduation tests^^), he was this kind of guy who doesn't fit into his era. I'm French but only by reading the article at the end of the video in english, I recognize his style (read Jacques the Fatalist ! all the book is like this article !^^), and I still can believe that in the 18th century there were people writing and thinking like that...
I read that article just now. Today it's something a comedian would say, because it's quite funny. Back then, I could understand why people were pissed off. They didn't accept freedom of speech yet I suppose.
i wonder how we can find this particular brand/version/series of encyclopedia that might contain the original articles and added on ones to keep with the times. i'd love to own a full series of encyclopedias
I expected this to have at least a thousand likes, all i have for you is my one like and this comment but please remember this is a masterpiece that you should be proud of, Your's sincerely, a stranger commenting on your comment four years after you posted it.
i remember those when i was in elementary school, we'd use them to write reports before the internet was everywhere. By the time I was in 7th grade most had internet access at home, but no digi cams yet... i wish i had a digi cam when i was little you guys are very lucky!
Pavao Skalić (latinizied Paulus Scalichius), Croatian adventurer, humanist and polihistor of the 16th century was the first one to use the term "encyclopaedia".
One sentence of description, and an entire paragraph of the editor's opinion that that one sentence is pointless, acknowledging that there are people who know a great deal of information about the subject, but they were not asked, and finding fault with that not in the failure to research, but in the fact that the one piece of information was included at all. Yes, clearly, this was an unbiased compendium of all human knowledge.
The title of this video is misleading. How is this video on the origins of the Encyclopedia when they only speak on an encyclopedia from France in the 1700s. What about the Naturalis Historia, by Pliny the Elder, published in 77AD or the Etymologiae, by Saint Isodore of Seville, published around the year 600-625 in Spain? The Etymologiae was the most important collection of knowledge in Europe for over 400 years! Those two encyclopedias are some of the earliest known and potentially there could have been earlier encyclopedias no longer known from ancient Greece, India, China, Egypt, Persia etc. Not to mention that there were many others we know of that were published before the Encyclopedia made by Diderot...
Diderot would be pleased to know that that article about aguaxima caused me to look it up on Wikipedia. A few hundred years later, that article made me learn something. :)
So sad that in history we only see Diderot as "the man who wrote the works of the Illuminated" and one of my friends said "we learn the name of someone who didn't invent something, but only wrote?"
What about the Yongle Encyclopedia that was written in the Ming Dynasty of China that outdated this encyclopedia? Are those two different kinds of encyclopedias?
They were made independently then, which is common in history. Many civiliztions tend to discover/invent the same sorts of things independent from one another.
Cool it has the same animation style as "blank on blank" also very this is very interesting history and I'm somewhat inclined to start reading encyclopedias now.
Interesting to notice that the spirit of the first encyclopedia was exactly the contrary of Wikipedia's principles: the Encyclopedia was mainly an act of dissidence, disseminating censored thoughts and novel ideas, while Wikipedia's neutral point of view generally forbids to present any real alternative to the dominant discourse, or original work. Of course both approaches are interesting.
+scivolanto There is one problem: Wikipedia can be biased sometimes. I don't know how and which ones except for "Gamergate". I need to be clear that I do not give a crap about Gamergate but at least I support their idea of journalism ethics. The problem is that the Wikipedia article seems to be biased as if it is supporting radical feminism and label the movement as a misgynistic community. I am not even sure which one is right; the people who support Gamergate that promotes freedom of speech and objective journalism or the feminsist viewpoint which I oppose.
+Louis XIV (aka 1685Violin) You're right. I think the issue mainly emerges in the case of topics where a strong majority with rigid views exists. In this case, this majority is able to silence minorities, especially if these minorities are already discriminated against in the society at large. Some topics like History ("History is written by the winners"), societal aspects, ideologies, sexuality... are particularly weak to such biases. So people should be extra careful when reading these kinds of articles on Wikipedia, because strong biases are to be expected. Some articles are even quite Orwellian in my opinion, as they make disappear a whole part of the human thought and History. But I prefer remaining evasive here, as this concerns sensitive topics and I don't feel this is the appropriate place to debate about it.
AGUAXIMA - Urena lobata, commonly known as Caesarweed or Congo jute, is an annual, variable, erect, ascendant under shrub and measuring up to 0.5 to 2.5 meters tall. The stems are covered with minute star-like hairs and often tinged purple. It is widely distributed as a weed in the tropics of both hemispheres including Brazil and Southeast Asia. Each individual plant grows as a single stalk that freely sends out bushy stems. The leaf shape is palmately lobed (having lobes that spread out like fingers on a hand). Like the stem, the leaves also have tiny hairs. Flowers of the plant are pink-violet and happen to grow one centimeter in width. The fruit is also hairy and may stick to clothing material or fur.
Wow this was so interesting! I just had a test on the Age of Reason, and it is interesting to have a more in depth view on some of these philosophes. Thank you!
Awesome video, although I'm gonna have to disagree with Diderot on the last one. Sure, it's not much information, but some people might find it interesting. People who play Scrabble, for example :D He's kind of ridiculing people who would want to have that word in there, but I think it could have been useful for some people. Also, I remember once reading the entry on something that had to do with black people. It wasn't the most progressive view, but yeah...
Thank you for making great videos that I can use for my last minute history group presentation! Their so informational and short that they are perfect!😭 I really need to stop procrastinating though… and do my own projects…
I suppose that looking at it one way it might seem that it is controversial on how it was written, but it seems more like censorship than controversy. the king and religious leaders did not want it published, which is censorship. Controversy would be if some of the authors did not agree with others were writing. I know apples and oranges.
"So, he got to work, with something way worse and much bigger" I already like this guy!
Me too
You forgot some words, its, so he got to work with something a little like that, you forgot thoose
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Right when he said that I had a little grin
"Aguaxima, a plant growing in Brazil and on the islands of South America. This is all that we are told about it; and I would like to know for whom such descriptions are made. It cannot be for the natives of the countries concerned, who are likely to know more about the aguaxima than is contained in this description, and who do not need to learn that the aguaxima grows in their country. It is not meant for us either, for what do we care that there is a tree in Brazil named Aguaxima, if all we know about it is its name? What is the point of giving the name? It leaves the ignorant just as they were and teaches the rest of us nothing. If all the same I mention this plant here, along with several others that are described just as poorly, then it is out of consideration for certain readers who prefer to find nothing in a dictionary article or even to find something stupid than to find no article at all."
Thanks a lot for this mate
Yeah. You really took your time. Your dedication has inspired me 😂😂😂😂😂
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I love that Addison Anderson has his own lesson and narrated it himself ❤
This is amazing, so many great men sacrficing their lives for the advancement of mankind.
+Titty Bugatti And women.
+2nd3rd1st *woman
too bad religion and science is always killing the free thinkers
+Nome di Fantasia no its society as a whole that kills free thinkers
and since pretty much all ppl are either religious or secular nowadays he was kinda right
+sooooooooDark 1) you can be religious and still secular. and there are no other things you can be. Either you are secular or you are not. Either you are religious or you are not.
2) secular doesn't mean science. A secular person can still deny all science in existence. Secularism have nothing to do with science.
3) just because a person that believes in science do bad things doesn't mean it's the science fault.
0:34 the laugh though
Louis once spent 20 years writing a book on anatomy, shipped it to Amsterdam to be published uncensored, and the ship sank. Damn!
Ya, that's a cold shot!!!
how weren't there any copies, at least a portion? I doubt he sent all the work he had of it?
@@inkonmyhands If i were to guess, they didn't have printing back then so it must have been difficult to make a copy of such an immense work especially considering that anatomy is very diagram intensive
who knew that writing was so risky
Who knew Ted Ed could be so casual about pornography.
+Punita Bhardwaj
Are you kidding? In France dissident writers and comedians are still banned from official media and ostracized, check out what is happening to Alain Soral and Dieudonné.
The world is fuc_ked up, democracy is never been so in peril.
Is 2016 get over it
+RisikoFromTheVault jeez I was stating that writers should be appreciated more
+RisikoFromTheVault +RisikoFromTheVault These people expressed racist and antisemitic opinions, and were condemned for that. There is no censorship there, just the application of the basic principle of freedom : one's freedom stops where the other's start. You can have your opinions but you can't call for violence toward a group of people.
His encyclopedia is written much better than a lot of my textbooks.
It's just so interesting to think about that this was the "first wikipedia"! The encyclopedia was a key part to the enlightenment, which just shows us how valuable public knowledge is :)
lol at how people are now considering encyclopaedias as first wikipedias rather than wikipedia as online encyclopedia, how things change
@@randomname285 My thoughts as well.
omg Addison Anderson actually wrote a lesson instead of just narrating?! good for you, my dude. you did a great job!
I have a newfound respect for the encyclopedia.
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HAHAHAHA. The aguaxima article is too funny.
Also of note, Diderot translated the first ever medical dictionary from a famous (in his time) english doctor. One of the entries of the dictionary listed a unicorns horn as a recipe for a medicine.
I am proud of human beings. This is the kind of history we deserve.
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Wrong, he got it right the first time.
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Also, have you noticed that the really important ones were mostly outlaws?
Interesting animation style
Watching your videos, I realize time after time how much French people have marked history haha, that makes me proud of my country! Thank you for the history reminder, even though we study that a lot in France. Your videos make everything easier to remember!
+Varoon well we learn about that time mostly in middle school and high school ;) (I really like Stéphane Bern though haha!)
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vive Marie Curie!
Despite imprisonment and censorship, Diderot collaborated with leading Enlightenment thinkers to create a revolutionary publication. His encyclopedia became a significant milestone in the history of science and education, despite bans by the king and orders from the Pope.
I think Ming Dynasty China has created something similar to an encyclopedia. The Emperor Yongle commissioned Yongle Canon(永乐大典) in 1403 and was completed in 1408. But sadly most of those copies were lost during the Palace fire of 1567, Li Zi Cheng's occupation of Beijing, Boxers rebellion and opium war.
my fav narrator gave this lesson...(y)
And?....
And...?
And...?
And...?
And?
sounds like it could be a movie
Yes, something like the lord of the rings trilogy.
The Encyclopedia was on of humanity's finest achievements
Does anyone else have to watch this for school?
I feel that the last sampled entry quite nicely sums up most TV. It doesn't inform, or help, but its purpose is for those who do not want to learn, or do not need help, but simply want something to watch (read) just to pass the time :)
4:37 Tip: Forks aren't edible.
The narrating legend Addison Anderson, narrating his own lesson.
How is this not a movie yet?!
We can quote Voltaire, Montaigne, Rousseau, all were very good in their arts... but only one of them was an absolute genious out of his time : Diderot. Not enough quoted and red (except in french graduation tests^^), he was this kind of guy who doesn't fit into his era. I'm French but only by reading the article at the end of the video in english, I recognize his style (read Jacques the Fatalist ! all the book is like this article !^^), and I still can believe that in the 18th century there were people writing and thinking like that...
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Just realized he’s narrating his own lesson :o
I read that article just now. Today it's something a comedian would say, because it's quite funny. Back then, I could understand why people were pissed off. They didn't accept freedom of speech yet I suppose.
It's so amazing how many people worked so hard to illuminate and teach the commoners on the 18th century
Ted-Ed:
Thank you for your program. Education, beautiful, music and voice. All happiness to you.
Rational dictionary of the arts, sciences, and crafts. AAAHHHH!!!
Small quibble: as far as we know, Rousseau looked nothing like that. That looks more like Descartes.
Honestly, the description of 'Aguaxima' was funny. Laughed all the way through.
i wonder how we can find this particular brand/version/series of encyclopedia that might contain the original articles and added on ones to keep with the times. i'd love to own a full series of encyclopedias
I was so appalled at my sad attempt of a French accent, that I completely quit altogether.
I expected this to have at least a thousand likes,
all i have for you is my one like and this comment but please remember this is a masterpiece that you should be proud of,
Your's sincerely,
a stranger commenting on your comment four years after you posted it.
Farsek you are much too kind, good sir. Thank you.
i remember those when i was in elementary school, we'd use them to write reports before the internet was everywhere. By the time I was in 7th grade most had internet access at home, but no digi cams yet... i wish i had a digi cam when i was little you guys are very lucky!
Pavao Skalić (latinizied Paulus Scalichius), Croatian adventurer, humanist and polihistor of the 16th century was the first one to use the term "encyclopaedia".
So, encyclopedia is like torrent on enlightenment era.
dude the description of aguaxima is so sassy I love it
One sentence of description, and an entire paragraph of the editor's opinion that that one sentence is pointless, acknowledging that there are people who know a great deal of information about the subject, but they were not asked, and finding fault with that not in the failure to research, but in the fact that the one piece of information was included at all. Yes, clearly, this was an unbiased compendium of all human knowledge.
I'm confused was that sarcasm? No one is claiming that it was unbiased. Even the video you just watched said that it was biased.
+miknarf Yes, it was sarcasm.
Ibn Kathir wrote an encyclopedia 1372 AD
The title of this video is misleading. How is this video on the origins of the Encyclopedia when they only speak on an encyclopedia from France in the 1700s. What about the Naturalis Historia, by Pliny the Elder, published in 77AD or the Etymologiae, by Saint Isodore of Seville, published around the year 600-625 in Spain? The Etymologiae was the most important collection of knowledge in Europe for over 400 years! Those two encyclopedias are some of the earliest known and potentially there could have been earlier encyclopedias no longer known from ancient Greece, India, China, Egypt, Persia etc. Not to mention that there were many others we know of that were published before the Encyclopedia made by Diderot...
Diderot would be pleased to know that that article about aguaxima caused me to look it up on Wikipedia. A few hundred years later, that article made me learn something. :)
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Pause at 5m to read about Aguaxima, totally worth it! It resambles something from today!!
Would love to read the whole thing.
So sad that in history we only see Diderot as "the man who wrote the works of the Illuminated" and one of my friends said "we learn the name of someone who didn't invent something, but only wrote?"
Pliny the Elder might raise an objection to this claim of the first encyclopedia.
Who else read the Aguaxima entry? that was great
I can not recommend enough that everyone go research and look up Diderot and his life. It’s such an incredible story.
So when is this movie going to be adapted?
What about Pliny's Natural History?
What about the Yongle Encyclopedia that was written in the Ming Dynasty of China that outdated this encyclopedia? Are those two different kinds of encyclopedias?
They were made independently then, which is common in history. Many civiliztions tend to discover/invent the same sorts of things independent from one another.
3.38 My self review after a Foreign Languages exam.
Can you do a video on animal classification?
I read the last bit aloud (in a french accent). It was enlightening and funny. I think at that point he was tired of writing.
I felt like he was just utterly annoyed that people didn't do or write anything about a tree that they all know about ....lol
Was this animated by Blank on Blank? The art is earily similar!
He did a great french accent at the end
Well this filled my curiosity.
How dangerous writing could be?
I am a french subscriber, to this channel. ;)
Very interesting history that I never knew about.
so who else is here from Patrick Smith's (the animator's) channel?
writing,
researching,
Arguing,
SMUGGLING,
*BACKSTABBING,*
*_LAW-BREAKING_*
and alphabetizing...
0:54 which novel is that? Chronicles of a Russian Princess?
The Aguaxima paragraph is brilliant. It is the most insightful and entertaining description of nothing at all that I have ever seen.
Cool it has the same animation style as "blank on blank" also very this is very interesting history and I'm somewhat inclined to start reading encyclopedias now.
I respect ✊ the encyclopedia now
1:40 - Falling down a hole in Grimrock.
"written in French, and in the most seductive style"
So... Aguaxima is a plant from Brazil, c'est bon à savoir ça . (^_^)
Interesting to notice that the spirit of the first encyclopedia was exactly the contrary of Wikipedia's principles: the Encyclopedia was mainly an act of dissidence, disseminating censored thoughts and novel ideas, while Wikipedia's neutral point of view generally forbids to present any real alternative to the dominant discourse, or original work.
Of course both approaches are interesting.
+scivolanto There is one problem: Wikipedia can be biased sometimes. I don't know how and which ones except for "Gamergate". I need to be clear that I do not give a crap about Gamergate but at least I support their idea of journalism ethics. The problem is that the Wikipedia article seems to be biased as if it is supporting radical feminism and label the movement as a misgynistic community. I am not even sure which one is right; the people who support Gamergate that promotes freedom of speech and objective journalism or the feminsist viewpoint which I oppose.
+Louis XIV (aka 1685Violin) You're right. I think the issue mainly emerges in the case of topics where a strong majority with rigid views exists. In this case, this majority is able to silence minorities, especially if these minorities are already discriminated against in the society at large.
Some topics like History ("History is written by the winners"), societal aspects, ideologies, sexuality... are particularly weak to such biases. So people should be extra careful when reading these kinds of articles on Wikipedia, because strong biases are to be expected. Some articles are even quite Orwellian in my opinion, as they make disappear a whole part of the human thought and History. But I prefer remaining evasive here, as this concerns sensitive topics and I don't feel this is the appropriate place to debate about it.
Religion , suppression, regression, and oppression all intersect very nicely.
It’s interesting how there is so many great stories yet too many boring movies
ending music please..?
So that was written by the famous narrator Anderson. I was wondering what kind of mind behind that voice.
Isn't the Suda the first Encyclopedia?
3:40 ....Well he wasn't wrong bout the Seductive part...
Great animation. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
AGUAXIMA - Urena lobata, commonly known as Caesarweed or Congo jute, is an annual, variable, erect, ascendant under shrub and measuring up to 0.5 to 2.5 meters tall. The stems are covered with minute star-like hairs and often tinged purple. It is widely distributed as a weed in the tropics of both hemispheres including Brazil and Southeast Asia. Each individual plant grows as a single stalk that freely sends out bushy stems. The leaf shape is palmately lobed (having lobes that spread out like fingers on a hand). Like the stem, the leaves also have tiny hairs. Flowers of the plant are pink-violet and happen to grow one centimeter in width. The fruit is also hairy and may stick to clothing material or fur.
Thank you, was wondering what plant he was referring to
no chill in that encyclopedia
absolutely no chill
What does he mean "read it yourself"? Is it online?
little did he know that he was laying the foundation of 'wikipedia'
3:38-3:44
Wow this was so interesting! I just had a test on the Age of Reason, and it is interesting to have a more in depth view on some of these philosophes. Thank you!
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the ending was swag
That last entry was beautiful.
Awesome video, although I'm gonna have to disagree with Diderot on the last one. Sure, it's not much information, but some people might find it interesting. People who play Scrabble, for example :D
He's kind of ridiculing people who would want to have that word in there, but I think it could have been useful for some people. Also, I remember once reading the entry on something that had to do with black people. It wasn't the most progressive view, but yeah...
I saw Brazil at the end... must be somethink about butts, futball and carnaval...
It's about the Aguaxima 😐
Thank you for making great videos that I can use for my last minute history group presentation! Their so informational and short that they are perfect!😭
I really need to stop procrastinating though… and do my own projects…
Umm the narrators voice is so cool 😍
I suppose that looking at it one way it might seem that it is controversial on how it was written, but it seems more like censorship than controversy. the king and religious leaders did not want it published, which is censorship. Controversy would be if some of the authors did not agree with others were writing. I know apples and oranges.
Omg! He created the first fan fic too!
10/10 would read again
that aguaxima entrie is the best entrie of entrieing in entrieing history.... this guy must be name the king of entreing for all eternity
love these videos!
If he wanted to know more about aguaxima he could have googled it, duh.
great ending
Encyclopedias are the best.
THIS HELP ME ALOT
12 year olds be like: what's a pornographic novel?
Searches it up
Oh
I'm pretty sure most 12 year olds know what a pornographic novel is...
wow ok
+icy diamonds lokl... doges