James Burke : Connections, Episode 2, "Death In The Morning", 2 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 2 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the "connections" between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a "1+1=3" type of way.

It is this type of investigation that is the main idea behind the Knowledge Web project; whereby sophisticated software is used to attempt to discover these subtle connections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[klaptongroovemaster]

"that gutsy disregard for convention that we today describe as... criminal."

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Hehe, I know. That's a classic line ;)

[Ricalsin]

Thank God for James Burke, who showed that love and respect for technology can be articulated with wit and insight outside the constraint and taint of religion - yet exposing it's influence upon it. The overly religious discussion of Christianity and the Dark Ages belongs elsewhere - perhaps on a site of your own making? Then you can jitter each other back and forth in the confines of your own passionate beliefs, perhaps garnering more than 40k viewers - as hate and mean speech seems to do.

[PahaLukki]

A square sail can and will go upwind. It depends on sail cut and more importantly, the hull and submerged foils to create lift. For 1900s windjammers, no problem. I've been there next to the full-rigged Mir as it started off from Utö to Riga on a beat to upwind in Tall Ships race of some year ago. Our sloop could point higher, but once Mir got going, we had nothing against the speed of that lengthy hull, and the power of square sails. Later, I heard Mir won the race to Riga.

[mkoszyca]

@MeatPopsicleHomey learn to spell first, before you start to criticize.

[montypythonfan777]

This has failed to mention the contribution of North European sailing technology, especially the that of the viking longships

[MrJonathanSwift]

@adrastea99 You're right. The "Dark Ages" people were not totally ignorant. Lawrence Principe dicusses some of the accomplishments in the Middle Ages, such as the work of the "Oxford calculators." Lawrence Principe's series is available from THE TEACHING COMPANY for $ 265.95 for the cd series or 199.95 via download. I'm going from memory about the price. Anyway it is not cheap. So one may want to wait for it to go on sale.

[PippaMyGoddess]

@Ricalsin

Youtube comments - the playground of polemics. At least you have your head screwed on, and yes, thank goodness for James Burke.

[adrastea99]

@oker59

*you're

*doubt

I named examples while you flapped around like a fish on dry land

[oker59]

@adrastea99

I didn't even ask you for your nationality; the fact that you felt you had to address it shows your crazy; i have no doute your going to come up with more crazyness; i'll just say, you win cause your crazy; i won't bother replying to whatever more you post in reply here or elsewhere.

[oker59]

@adrastea99

no, you were angry first, and your ignoring everything that hasn't been convenient for you. You just don't get it; in fact, your crazy!

[adrastea99]

@oker59

What the Arab world did was a travesty, they copied ancient books, made the ideas fit with their faith and then burned the originals

The west only managed to recover snippets because wondrous sites such as the library of Alexandria were destroyed by the early Caliphs

It would have been better had the books been buried, surely then they would have survived

I dont care about Charlemagne

My point is that the "Dark Ages" were more advanced than most people think, and history agrees