James Burke : Connections, Episode 9, "Countdown", 2 of 5 (CC)

[squll6559]

loved the vid

[unacomn]

I used to excel in school at certain subjects because of this series. It not only made learning entertaining, but the way the information was delivered made it very hard to forget. Every event being linked to every other one made it as easy as retracing the steps in my mind.

I wished normal school would be this effective, sadly, it never was.

[vulpecula999]

Leonard Digges - inventor of the theodolite - also invented the reflecting telescope. Mention of his "perspective glasse" - with a magnification of x11 - appears as early as 1578, fully thirty years prior to Lipperhey's patent.

[Bondianwolf]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that a little diddy called "My Country Tis of Thee" is based on this tune. I say "based" because "plagiarized" sounds so unpleasant.

[ryoushii]

@Bondianwolf It is the same tune, with us thieving americans, as usual, stealing the tune from the British, as their version, "God save the King(or Queen)" predates "My Country Tis of Thee" by at least 50-60 YEARS, if not more.

[SynxVII]

what is the music playing at the end of this part?

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Haha. No idea. I've asked this question many times on other videos and suggested that as a YT feature. I mean they seem to specialize in audio content ID matching. My idea was that it could be put to good use too!

- JBW

[chickenlampbrent]

The music is by Faure (pron, faw-ray) its called Pavane. He was a French impressionist composer.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Would it be Fauré then?

[kevinamuir]

LOL "Fine, that was alright, except that while you were doing all this... they shot you."

brilliant.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Haha... I forgot about that bit. Mr. Burke can be quite a comedian at times!

- JBW