The Invention of Colour - Objectivity 272

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  • Опубликовано: 24 апр 2023
  • Brady joins Louisiane Ferlier at the Royal Society to learn how colours were made and used for science. More links below ↓↓↓
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  • @ObjectivityVideos
    @ObjectivityVideos  Год назад +1

    Bonus material for Patrons: www.patreon.com/posts/82450076

  • @stevepayne3094
    @stevepayne3094 Год назад +32

    Lovely video. Louisiane was clearly having the best time, and those online archived sound amazing too!

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio Год назад +21

    Starting a letter with an exclamation point is very bold. I love it!

  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell Год назад +14

    10:21 I create cyanotypes, so seeing Herschel's first cyanotypes was a genuine thrill. We're looking at images he created in 1842 - just three years after Daguerre announced the daguerreotype process in Paris.
    Herschel coined the word "photography" as well as "positive" and "negative" in reference to it.
    Photographic images made using organic substances are called anthotypes. The process was invented by an acquaintance of Herschel's, Mary Somerville.
    Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

  • @kilimanjarocruz660
    @kilimanjarocruz660 Год назад +6

    The 'Science in the making' project is outstanding, huge thanks for everyone involved. This episode is also fascinating by itself, as the norm for Objectivity.

  • @jimorlowski5051
    @jimorlowski5051 Год назад

    the Royal Society 'making science' link is a glorious time consumer - thank you!

  • @TheEnterShepman
    @TheEnterShepman Год назад +41

    Simply awesome! Just handed in my PhD thesis and an this video drops … as if the day could not get any better 🎉

  • @drskelebone
    @drskelebone Год назад

    This "Making Science" project is wonderful. This is what the internet was built for: spreading knowledge to everyone, not just people who have a friend who has a friend who happens to be the vice president of the royal society or the head archivist of the royal society etc. Also the art museums releasing 3d models that people can print at home. This is the way.

  • @LunteBooks
    @LunteBooks 6 месяцев назад

    As much as we all love Keith, your videos with Louisiane are great! She is so pleasant to listen to. Also, we would love to see more videos delving into the alchemical notes of other famous scientists. Thank you!

  • @pattheplanter
    @pattheplanter Год назад +4

    "Chameleon mineral" (French: caméléon minéral) was potassium manganate which changes colours between green, purple and brown. It appears to have been used as a mordant.

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof Год назад +3

    Re those "undeveloped" images: the people who do conservation and/or restoration of famous artworks worth millions have developed/adopted some very non-destructive test methods for detecting hidden images. They are highly motivated due to avoidance of "Oops, sorry, painting is no more".

  • @polares8187
    @polares8187 Год назад

    Thank you for everything Brady

  • @MarineLeroy
    @MarineLeroy Год назад +1

    Louisiane just made the whole subject fascinating and addictive!

  • @blindbrick
    @blindbrick Год назад +10

    10:27 Could the picture become visible when you look at it outside the visible spectrum? In UV or IR, nobody needs to touch the paper.

    • @_D_P_
      @_D_P_ Год назад

      I was going to suggest the same.

  • @oposkainaxei
    @oposkainaxei Год назад +3

    Louisiane is simply adorable!

  • @horsetuna
    @horsetuna Год назад +1

    The Royal Society actually shows up in the 2019 version of cats. During the Bustofer Jones scene you can see the painting of Isaac Newton and the outside of the building strongly resembles the society's current location, which is also not far from the other exterior locations identified in the movie such as Piccadilly circus

  • @drskelebone
    @drskelebone Год назад +2

    Is that pink safe? I guess: have they taken some of the pink silk and analyzed it to see what the dye composition/remnants are? With the note that arsenic was one of the colorants, and the general "safety-free" environment at the time, I'm not sure I'd want to handle it without the White Gloves of Destiny.

  • @RFC-3514
    @RFC-3514 Год назад +4

    They should definitely look into extracting information from the undeveloped "photo" (which should be perfectly possible with current technology). Otherwise what are they keeping it for? "This might be something, it might not be, and we're not even going to try to find out." Archivism isn't just hoarding.

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Год назад

      There is also plenty of the pink silk that they could test, mostly non-destructively. It may be an unknown and ecologically superior dyeing technique.

  • @scraps7624
    @scraps7624 Год назад

    I loved this episode! Louisiane is amazing!

  • @MisterTingles
    @MisterTingles Год назад +6

    Once again, great episode! So glad I found this channel, and it keeps delivering outstanding content that tickles my brain in such a satisfying way.
    also, "Priestly, of Oxygen fame" is a feckin baller ass business card...

    • @drskelebone
      @drskelebone Год назад +1

      The internet is slowly reviving the concept of the Latin cognomen to indicate a genre/source/fandom for characters with names that might be mistaken (or not). So you get things like Goku Dragonball, Toad Mario, Mario Mario, Willow Buffy, etc. Priestly Oxygen is just the same idea. Joseph Priestly Oxygen seems perfect to me.

  • @Bortnm
    @Bortnm Год назад +6

    Needs a White Gloves of Destiny app to randomly choose objects for us to look at.

  • @gavinhelgeson2880
    @gavinhelgeson2880 Год назад +1

    Great topic 👍

  • @Qenton
    @Qenton Год назад

    I would love to see an Objectivity random dip for the Royal Society online archives!

  • @JcGross93
    @JcGross93 Год назад +5

    Brady, you should take these recipes and make them on periodic videos. And I'm not just saying it to make you distil some horsepiss, I swear.

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 Год назад

    I blame you for the time that's about to be sucked out of my life now ... thanks so much for sharing that link!

  • @twycross3
    @twycross3 Год назад +4

    Please do more episodes with color as the subject

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell Год назад +1

      I highly recommend you watch the BBC's three-part "History of the World in Three Colours" with Prof. James Fox. Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

  • @krisweinschenker598
    @krisweinschenker598 Год назад +1

    That was pretty cool about John Herschel and aurophotography....cynanotypes too.

  • @FPSNecromancerBob
    @FPSNecromancerBob Год назад +26

    For April fools next year can we get a t shirt like the objectivity Darwin/Newton handwriting but is says Horfpifh ? 😄

    • @groezy
      @groezy Год назад +5

      i think it's Horspiſs, but yes. this is a good idea.

    • @Iwoodlikethat
      @Iwoodlikethat Год назад +3

      I was thinking they should do one about the time that the world switched from black and white to colour

    • @DavidBeddard
      @DavidBeddard Год назад +2

      Should it include the alchemical symbol too?

  • @JustOneAsbesto
    @JustOneAsbesto Год назад +2

    "Always the horsepiss" t-shirts and mugs coming soon.

  • @noproblem4260
    @noproblem4260 Год назад +1

    Hi guys, why is the date heading such a different caligraphy from the body of the letter? which is outstanding!!!

  • @AxelWerner
    @AxelWerner Год назад +5

    What kids these days forgot is, that before the Invention of Colour everything was just "grayscale" and black and white. 🙃

    • @Yezpahr
      @Yezpahr Год назад +2

      Yea, I'm happy my ancestors decided to update their eyes with the chromatic update that followed soon after the invention.

  • @tnmoe-
    @tnmoe- Год назад +3

    I wonder if there is some strange connection with the symbol for "urine" being the same as the symbol for "Dry, Low heat" hahaha

  • @ZaximusRex
    @ZaximusRex Год назад

    Hey Brady and crew. When you are involved with the Royal Society I would love if you could find something to highlight some of the more esoteric interests of some of the great minds of the past. I've heard that Newton and others had passing interests in Alchemy for example. It would be fascinating if the Society had anything to document this stuff. Thanks!

  • @rtpoe
    @rtpoe Год назад +1

    With regards to those faded color samples, if the recipes are there, why not try to recreate them?

  • @nodakamakadon
    @nodakamakadon Год назад

    She's great. More of her.

  • @YPOC
    @YPOC Год назад +1

    I could well imagine you could inspect what is hidden in the undeveloped image with Raman spectroscopy

  • @fuckingghey
    @fuckingghey Год назад

    I have a challenge for you, Brady!
    Make a video of you reading any old recipe for making dye without getting demonetized by the ingredients haha

  • @alexisroberts1871
    @alexisroberts1871 Год назад

    This was fun. Why did I find this fun!?

  • @RuthvenMurgatroyd
    @RuthvenMurgatroyd 10 месяцев назад

    3:40 I believe it technically reads horse*pish* but, of course, this means the same thing (pish and piss being synonyms).

  • @ilikenothingtoo
    @ilikenothingtoo Год назад

    I want the Objectivity "Always the Horse Piss" T-shirt.

  • @U014B
    @U014B Год назад

    3:40 I thought that was what a Yorkshireman goes into in his final days.

  • @DarkMatter1992
    @DarkMatter1992 Год назад

    I remember watching a show called "The Worst Jobs in History", hosted by Tony Robinson, and one of the jobs featured was that of a Purple Maker.

    • @MarkTillotson
      @MarkTillotson Год назад

      I not sure I want to know how the urine was collected from the horses...

  • @dahemac
    @dahemac Год назад

    ❤ Objectivity ❤

  • @lafcursiax
    @lafcursiax Год назад +2

    This video should have been called "Horsepiss and Pinkmail"

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando Год назад

    Keith (off camera): [whispers] Enclosures.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 Год назад

    What I see is a stripes, green thin white, thin black, orange, thin black pink, thin black, orange, thin black, thin white, green and thin white.

  • @nicksamek12
    @nicksamek12 Год назад +1

    Pretty great timing, SciShow Tangents put out a podcast on color today as well.

  • @donsample1002
    @donsample1002 Год назад +1

    A whole video about colour at the Royal Society, that doesn’t even mention Newton?

  • @BigKingJohn
    @BigKingJohn Год назад

    Robert Hooke -- greatest scientist of all time, and victim of the thief and scoundrel Newton.

  • @culwin
    @culwin Год назад

    It's cool that you put all that manuscript online, but I need Keith to read it to me.

  • @groezy
    @groezy Год назад

    the combination of her english and french(?) accents sounds almost dutch to me

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 Год назад +1

  • @Xe4ro
    @Xe4ro Год назад

    3:43 Nobody tell NileRed about this :D

  • @jonidcrushfire
    @jonidcrushfire 7 месяцев назад

    Hahahaha, I saw red yellow, yellow, red. I am very colorblind, but I knew that. Nice to see there were people worse off than me lol

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 Год назад

    Damn Brady been losing a lot of weight anymore and you might blow away with the wind.

  • @OneTrueBadShoe
    @OneTrueBadShoe Год назад

    Could be the video, but I see
    Gray Green
    Orange
    Pink
    Yellow
    Brownish Gold

  • @Nethershaw
    @Nethershaw Год назад

    Wherein I learned the chemical usefulness of horsepiss.

  • @realdamageboy
    @realdamageboy Год назад +2

    Why not try to look at undeveloped picture with infra red microscope ?

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC Год назад +1

      Why do you think that would help?

    • @realdamageboy
      @realdamageboy Год назад +1

      @@CorwynGC because infrared wavelength is so powerful, it can go thru paper pages, and if there is some image, the structure of paper will be different. I think with right brightness and right photo exposure we can see the actual image not destroying it

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC Год назад +1

      @@realdamageboy except that you have that wrong infrared is less energetic than any visible wavelength. And going through the paper doesn't help in determining the latent image.

  • @NolanFriedline
    @NolanFriedline Год назад

    Brady looking slim, I hope you are doing well.

  • @RonJohn63
    @RonJohn63 2 месяца назад

    Is she Scottish?
    3:26 And who had the idea to use urine when making colors?
    7:01 That's why (in the US, at least) 2nd Lieutenants have gold bars, but 1st Lieutenants have silver bars.

  • @faenethlorhalien
    @faenethlorhalien Год назад

    It's well known the world was mostly b/w until the 1950s :P

  • @krisweinschenker598
    @krisweinschenker598 Год назад +1

    The Romans used urine in leather making

  • @gavtriple9
    @gavtriple9 Год назад

    No idea what colour is, still yet to be invented. However this is when color was invented.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

    Horse piss, huh? I wasn't expecting such... colorful language.

  • @user-ol2mr4bx7c
    @user-ol2mr4bx7c Год назад

    You're looking lean these days Brady

  • @jiversteve
    @jiversteve Год назад

    I am colourblind a GF teased me about it, that was the end of an otherwise beautiful relationship.
    I do hope she is reading this!

  • @hawaiiwavehome
    @hawaiiwavehome Год назад

    You spelled "colour" wrong along with "harbour". See... even the error correction wants to change your spelling.

    • @curiousfirely
      @curiousfirely Год назад +1

      I can't tell if you are serious or not...my not-so-serious answer is to change your language settings to British English, then your keyboard will recognize the correct spelling of these words!🎉

  • @beachboardfan9544
    @beachboardfan9544 Год назад +1

    Color*

    • @beachboardfan9544
      @beachboardfan9544 Год назад +1

      @@Zuluknob Color*

    • @Daniel_Rodrigues_89
      @Daniel_Rodrigues_89 Год назад +2

      @@beachboardfan9544 No, but you're going to post it again with sarcasm to this very comment and it'll keep going forever. And it will keep being wrong. And it's exactly what you''ll post again next: "Color*".

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson Год назад +3

      @@Zuluknob Well the host is not English, Brady is Australian, but they also spell colour with a u.

    • @beachboardfan9544
      @beachboardfan9544 Год назад

      @@Daniel_Rodrigues_89 😎

    • @realnutteruk1
      @realnutteruk1 Год назад

      It's a shame they didn't taste anything and discuss flavour too... or talk about their neighbourhood....