The Scandal That Ignited the Scientific Revolution

By every measure, Nicolas Copernicus should have failed. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Thank you to https://rebel-thinkers.com/ for supplying the Codex of Inventions book featured at the start of the video. Chapters: 0:00 A Scandal Before the Revolution 0:33 An Unlikely Revolutionary 2:03 Leaving Italy, Choosing Isolation 2:40 Introducing a Dangerous Idea 3:35 Fear, Faith, and Reputation 4:36 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant 5:32 Convincing Copernicus to Publish 6:51 The Cracks in Ptolemy’s Geocentric Model 7:55 The Book That Shook the World 9:03 Death Before Impact 9:44 The Revolution Spreads Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: University of Kraków: Chepry 💬 (Andrzej Barabasz) 📷 🇵🇱, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons University of Bologna: Wwikiwalter, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Replica of the oldest surviving telescope: Science Museum Group, CC BY 4.0 International via Wikimedia Commons Panorama of Frombork: Polimerek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Frombork Cathedral Hill in winter: Tomek Zakrzewski, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Grave of Copernicus inside Frombork Cathedral: Holger Weinandt, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE via Wikimedia Commons Interior of Frombork Cathedral: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons