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Filippo Brunelleschi: Great Minds

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Uploaded on Feb 23, 2012

Hank talks about Renaissance architect, engineer, and professional cranky guy Filippo Brunelleschi in this "Great Minds" dose.

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  • DEASBROS

    I am drinking and watching this aeswomenesssss!!! Sceicne and JJack!!!!!!!!Yyya!

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  • Mario Baqueiro

    Make a video about Gauss!

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  • nekdolan

    John von Neumann

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  • MrMaxwelljohnson

    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.

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    in reply to Neil Roberts (Show the comment)
  • MrMaxwelljohnson

    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!

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  • ikloopop

    cuz i don't trust any of yo assfaces XD

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  • harmoniumkane

    I thought "The Flying Buttresses" would be an awesome name for a band. I searched it and to my surprise it already exists. lol

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  • haynerbass

    Sweet "Evil Spock" whiskers dude!

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  • 42x42x42x42

    Did you made a video about Giordano Bruni?

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  • NELSON X

    Radio Shack employee, pretty funny. This is Hank country though, we love him, he is smart and funny and makes science fun. Give him a couple decades, he might look like your ideal scientist then. Radio Shack employee, HA.

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  • Zeusc41

    Have you done episode on "nostradamus" ?? 

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  • donkfail1

    This is one of the things the Romans didn't borrow (steal) from the Greek. Greek architecture didn't ure domes. They didn't even use arches!

    The idea was plausible though. The Romans usually adapted any technology or method they could use from the peoples they did conquer, as long as it was possible to gain economical or military advances from it.

    When Rome assimilated the Greek they didn't bother much with the philosophy and art. Even scientific work in math and physics got lost then.

    :(

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