Being Dutch myself, the meaning of "pissabed" was quite obvious to me! It's actually still in use in modern Dutch, spelled as pissebed, and its meaning hasn't changed to this day. Great episode!
I find it strange that he didn't find that word in the regular dictionary. Pissebed is the Dutch word for woodlice, it's spelled a bit different, but it's similar enough. For 5s I felt like a linguistic genius 😂
Greetings, fellow Dutchman. Pissebed indeed. Loved those critters from early childhood on. My grandfather (same name as myself) actually published a book with short stories where the pissebed was the main character of the first chapter. He used 'keldervarkentje' as the name though.
@@monad_tcp There are so many incentives these days to be short - in many journals the word counts are tight, and often you need to cram as much data as possible into the paper to even get it published. As a consequence of this, they really emphasize concision in writing courses during grad school (if they offer any writing courses). Also, a lot of the time the writing is defensive, you are looking to preempt criticism and questions your immediate colleagues might have, so the paper almost ends up being written for them (and they're usually the ones who get to decide whether or not the paper gets published). It would be nice to write for a more general audience, but we've got to make it through peer review first. I feel like the amount of amount of work and data expected for a paper is growing in an unsustainable way in some fields, and we might have to rethink the way we publish and disseminate data in the future. In the 80's cloning a gene was enough, in the 90's making a mutant was enough. Now you have to clone the gene, make the mutant, and characterize the mutant, often with some crazy imaging protocol or big-data-omics analysis. Each individual step of the process is much easier now, but the cumulative effort that's expected is much greater. Back in the days when you could get away with one data figure you could spend more space communicating and speculating in a conversational tone. Also, while I know what you mean, and I often read older papers and lament "Why am I not allowed to write like this anymore?", some times older papers are written with the same excessive and stodgy fluff that plagues older writing of all genres (think Herman Melville but the scientific version). Back in the day, people used ultra flowery language to show off, often to a fault. The modern emphasis on clarity and concision isn't all bad, and I dream of a day where we can have the best of both worlds.
@@BenTajer89 journals are the problem causing the "publish or perish" I really think data should be published separated, I have so many problems trying to reproduce results, I want to see the raw data. the amount of "data", or may I call trash nowadays...
@@BenTajer89 To the other way, too many papers are heavily dense in what I call "complex language", they anything but clear and direct, for the obvious reason there's not much in them, except they had to be published to increase the numbers.
@@monad_tcp Yeah Agree 1000%. I wonder if what we now consider papers should be published one figure at a time with a thorough accounting of methods etc. Then the author can publish a synthesis, which would be kind of like a review of all their own figures, once they felt like they had a more complete narrative.
A "pissabed" still has a very similar version used today: "pissebed". Its so similar that I am surprised that he had such a problem finding the meaning of the original.
I have looked it up (on an online dutch etymology bank) and it seems that it never really was pissabed? Was it a "typo"? The earliest version seems to have been "pisbedde" in 1567, which is before Van Leeuwenhoek. A contemporary version would have been "Pissebet" though dutch wasn't standardised back then so the t instead of the d could very well have been personal preference of said writer.
I remember "discovering" protozoa in a farm pond with a microscope my uncle gave me. I thought I had discovered something new to science, then learned that Leeuwenhoek had beat me to it by about 300 years. lol
Someone seriously needs to make a movie about van Leeuwenhoek! With the birth of the royal society, science was finally taking an evidence-based approach to reasoning. Like, people had just established that unicorns didn’t exist because they hadn’t been observed. Notwithstanding the groundbreaking scientific progress coming out of this group (ever heard of Isaac Newton?), van Leeuwenhoek fiercely guarded his microscopes and had a rocky relationship with these guys for a while. Van Leeuwenhoek was curious and an expert naturalist. He loved bringing his microscopes to parties to show his friends the unseen world. I have no doubt that he has inspired countless people both back then and now to not only see the world in new ways, but also seek to understand it.
It was indeed a special time, van Leeuwenhoek, Christiaan Huygens, Spinoza, Newton and many more, all these people lived at the same time, and knew each other, even met each other, used each others work. They together revolutionized the world, probably without fully realizing their impact themselves as that is usually impossible when you are in the middle of it.
@@woutijland4983 if I ask a Dutch tattooist to put the phrase on my back, I assume the real translation will be "fat American thinks he's funny but smells like stool."
I had to snicker very childishly when Hank announced that the video was being sponsored by Curiosity Stream. Having just discussed another stream that led to curiosity.
Clifford Dobbell's introduction to his biography of van Leeuwenhoek should be required reading for all students of any sort. Seriously, that gave me the best sort of frisson, right down my spine. When we stop learning, we stop living. Also, "animalcules" is the most lovely, whimsical name for wee beasties (and not-beasties) ever.
Hank is nothing if not diligent. The lengths he goes to ensure he pronounces things correctly is astonishing; this is completely evident in some of the many SciShow videos he's hosted.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice this, but Hank puts on a surprisingly different voice for these videos. It's so much warmer and closer than how he sounds when presenting for SciShow or waxing contemporaneous on vlogbrothers. I like it!
Isn't it true that he actually invented the microscope to examine the fabric he bought more closely, giving him an advantage in the textile trading industry?
Yea, I believe so too. He doesn't invented *the* Microscope though, he invented a microscope that has something like 200x magnification of the older makes for that very purpose of Quality-checking Textile from his Drapery shop
When a Dutch name contains 'van', it is included when you only say the surname. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek would be called Mr. Van Leeuwenhoek, just like Vincent van Gogh is Mr. Van Gogh, not Mr. Gogh.
Beautiful video! Leeuwenhoek called them "diertgens" or "little animals". It was Oldenburg who translated "diertgens" as "animalcules". Hence the title of Dobell's biography, "AvL and his 'little animals'", in which he refers to him as Leeuwenhoek (not Van Leeuwenhoek), as do I on the Lens on Leeuwenhoek website.
Your pronunciation of van Leewenhoek is nearly perfect. Van in van Leeuwenhoek is the only part that could be better. The a in it is pronounced is in the Ahs and ohs when you are surprised (but very short). I like it when people try to pronounce names correctly.
While I mainly just wanted to say I am consistently blown away by the quality of the footage on this channel, especially recently, I really appreciate the history that goes along with a lot of that footage. Sometimes that style of presentation makes me feel like I'm along for the ride, asking the same questions that are about to be mentioned, and it makes it feel like I own a tiny part of that discovery, at least in the sense that I'll actually remember a lot of it. Then there's things like this, where I'm really just too entranced by wiggly things under a lens to be asking too many questions of my own in the moment, but things still manage to stick in ways that they never do as footnotes in a textbook or a bleary-eyed Wikipedia crawl even when I have genuine interest to begin with.
Imagine learning a new language just to translate some text. Only to find out that the text was written so lang ago that you still needed a native translator to find out what was written.
Před 3 lety+2
@@gewoonik687 Thinking on the ones who deciphered cuneiform writing...
google translate doesn't work, it only seems to work at the superficial level. if you want to learn something you either need a real translation or to learn the language
I sometimes think about the children of these creators having such a long history of their parents recorded for as long as youtube exists. Or their grandkids being able to watch their lives and how/what they uploaded. Compared to only still photos in b&w there will be a lot more family trees with videos and progression of the people in them.
pissabed is still used in dutch for woodlice, the a just became an "en", so pissenbed. and kudo's to Hank pronounciation of leeuwenhoek, if you pronounce the "W" like the "R" that tom scott uses you will sound just right.
Well, at least he didn't fall fall for the "Liivenh'k" trap, but somehow the w still ends up sounding like a v. If he'd asked me I'd have advised to say it like "LAY-when-hook".
I was just watching a video about Leeuwenhoek, and I thought of asking Journey to the Microcosmos to do a video about him! So I opened youtube to ask him, but then I saw this video was on my recommended.
Most marvelous, indeed. What an interesting mind he must have had, to find so much wonder in things so small. And to so stubbornly refuse to share the things he saw - perhaps because he did not want notoriety? Or because he felt that others should do as much work as he had done to earn the privilege of visiting these tiny, seemingly magical worlds. Great video!!!
The Dutch language underwent a major modernization and revision in the 1830s, drastically altering the vocabulary. Even many modern native modern Dutch speakers have trouble with the old language.
@@ananyaravikumar5069 more like making it more uniform, i.e. conforming it to the language the way it was spoken in the West of the country. Plus like in older English, the spelling and grammar were probably all over the place.
And funny enough, even then the accent differences between cities only a few dozen kilometers from each other. Were absolutely wild. Only the modern communication age made these mostly melt together.
This history lesson got me thinking: how much evolution has occurred between the microscopic creatures of 300 years ago vs today? How different would a Spirogyra look then vs today? How would we know?
Small correction for the title: His last name is Van Leeuwenhoek, not just Leeuwenhoek. That's like saying I'm going to Donalds when you mean McDonalds.
I think that Leeuwenhoek described his lenses as something he polished into shape. Yet the reason so many right after him failed is they tried that lens making approach, is because Leeuwenhoek's secret was that he actually used a flame to make small glass beads from thin strands of glass.
When you know immediately what a "pissebed" is/looks like :p I feel like "little animals" can never captivate the "kleine beestjes" translation completely.
in modern dutch a woodlouse is called "pissebed" . just one letter difference . i think 17th century dutch wasn't *that* weird . . . not much weirder than today's dutch , anyhow .
He:- Got diahorrea and discovered microbiology. Newton:- Got pandemic and discovered Calculus and Gravity. Me:- Got both of them, but discovered this video while ehile sitting on toilet
Thanks JM, I could sit and watch bacteria for hours, it's our inner space alien world. To see a digital film about our own inner cell workings see Drew Berry, Animations of Unseeable Biology, It's brilliantly made and helps me understand me better.
Giardia is not fun. I had several friends doing their MS.Geography, who got sick from drinking from high Alpine streams in N. Cent. WA state. They assumed were clean. They almost never are, even though few humans get to visit them. But animals do! One girl came back doubled over with abdominal bleeding. This guy treats giardia like a personal science project in his body!🤔
Yep. And unlike most hikers and campers, animals have no issues with pissing and shitting in the water they drink. So guys, *PLEASE* FILTER OR BOIL YOUR WATER.
How odd. Last week my daughter sent me a video of my 2 year old grandson discovering a woodlouse. She and he live in Ireland, and I was curious as to what the woodlouse was called locally. I told her it was a beast of many names, like "pill bug" "sow bug" "roly poly" and a number of others. And now we have "Pissabed".
5:45 As someone who speaks dutch, I know what that is. And I am convinced that most of my friends do aswell. edit: google even autocorrects pissabed to the correct spelling for me.
6:00 why would he have had to find a 17th century disctionary to find out what a pissebed is? We still call them that way And yes, that is a combination of the words pee and bed, I have no clue why
It comes from an old remedy for when you have trouble urinating. They would crush it it up with herbs and boiled water. That's what people told me when I grew up.
The guy probably did not have any access to anybody who spoke both Dutch and English. I don't think people back then had much incentive to learn English (and vice versa).
@@ikt32 he learned Dutch so I think he would be fine, with some one who could read old dutch or any native Dutch person with a good gasp of there own language. But you are kind of right in the early 1900s the mainstream science was usually in German. English starred to become more important as the westernworld started to Americanise their culture. Although they where very much helped by the fact that the Brits spoke English and had conolised half the world.
Robert Hooke: "Hey, I was playing around with some chemical reagents and electricity collected from a lightning bolt, and look! LOOK!!! These weird Ascaria showed up out of nowhere. I mean I didn't do anything wrong, like uhmm trammel into God's demesne of something? A fearful mob with torches and sharp implements isn't going break my door down and commit grievous bodily harm?"
What do you think of Leeuwenhoek keeping his methods to himself? How would that kind of "I won't share my technology advancements" be received today? I am genuinely curious what you think.
Considering that lenses had military applications with seafaring and the Third Anglo-Dutch War had just been concluded with the fourth around the corner it's sort of remarkable that he send anything to the the Royal Society. Edit: Sorry, the third war had just concluded, but the forth would take another century. Mixed up 1600 and 1700.
dutchy here, why do you say levenhoek, its leeuwenhoek, you pronounce it starting with a *l eː w edit: pissebed = woodlouse second edit: oke you got it, haha i pauzed to type it when i saw that the translation wasnt made
WHAAAAAAAT??? THAT early??? Did people still think the world was flat? Yet people were already using microscopes to look at micro organisms???? That just sounds....bonkers!
Being Dutch myself, the meaning of "pissabed" was quite obvious to me! It's actually still in use in modern Dutch, spelled as pissebed, and its meaning hasn't changed to this day. Great episode!
Ah I was just a bit too late to comment the same thing :)
@@nvwest But it's great that you wanted to contribute. Maybe next time.
I find it strange that he didn't find that word in the regular dictionary. Pissebed is the Dutch word for woodlice, it's spelled a bit different, but it's similar enough. For 5s I felt like a linguistic genius 😂
Greetings, fellow Dutchman. Pissebed indeed. Loved those critters from early childhood on. My grandfather (same name as myself) actually published a book with short stories where the pissebed was the main character of the first chapter. He used 'keldervarkentje' as the name though.
this is why I read the comments
I love old scientific papers, not just describes the thing they see but also describing the feelings they have in "the most marvelous" way.
Something is clearly missing in nowadays papers written in dead language.
@@monad_tcp There are so many incentives these days to be short - in many journals the word counts are tight, and often you need to cram as much data as possible into the paper to even get it published. As a consequence of this, they really emphasize concision in writing courses during grad school (if they offer any writing courses). Also, a lot of the time the writing is defensive, you are looking to preempt criticism and questions your immediate colleagues might have, so the paper almost ends up being written for them (and they're usually the ones who get to decide whether or not the paper gets published). It would be nice to write for a more general audience, but we've got to make it through peer review first.
I feel like the amount of amount of work and data expected for a paper is growing in an unsustainable way in some fields, and we might have to rethink the way we publish and disseminate data in the future. In the 80's cloning a gene was enough, in the 90's making a mutant was enough. Now you have to clone the gene, make the mutant, and characterize the mutant, often with some crazy imaging protocol or big-data-omics analysis. Each individual step of the process is much easier now, but the cumulative effort that's expected is much greater. Back in the days when you could get away with one data figure you could spend more space communicating and speculating in a conversational tone.
Also, while I know what you mean, and I often read older papers and lament "Why am I not allowed to write like this anymore?", some times older papers are written with the same excessive and stodgy fluff that plagues older writing of all genres (think Herman Melville but the scientific version). Back in the day, people used ultra flowery language to show off, often to a fault. The modern emphasis on clarity and concision isn't all bad, and I dream of a day where we can have the best of both worlds.
@@BenTajer89 journals are the problem causing the "publish or perish"
I really think data should be published separated, I have so many problems trying to reproduce results, I want to see the raw data.
the amount of "data", or may I call trash nowadays...
@@BenTajer89 To the other way, too many papers are heavily dense in what I call "complex language", they anything but clear and direct, for the obvious reason there's not much in them, except they had to be published to increase the numbers.
@@monad_tcp Yeah Agree 1000%. I wonder if what we now consider papers should be published one figure at a time with a thorough accounting of methods etc. Then the author can publish a synthesis, which would be kind of like a review of all their own figures, once they felt like they had a more complete narrative.
A "pissabed" still has a very similar version used today: "pissebed". Its so similar that I am surprised that he had such a problem finding the meaning of the original.
I have looked it up (on an online dutch etymology bank) and it seems that it never really was pissabed? Was it a "typo"? The earliest version seems to have been "pisbedde" in 1567, which is before Van Leeuwenhoek. A contemporary version would have been "Pissebet" though dutch wasn't standardised back then so the t instead of the d could very well have been personal preference of said writer.
sorry for jumping on this same subject - should have read your comment first .
@@jonas7510 This is the internet man, do as you please.
Yeah, any dutch would easily recognise pissabed, pisbedde, etc. Funny tho.
@@MrTapierwithmustache The a in pissabed explains as the sjwa in English sounds as a, in Dutch as e.
I remember "discovering" protozoa in a farm pond with a microscope my uncle gave me. I thought I had discovered something new to science, then learned that Leeuwenhoek had beat me to it by about 300 years. lol
Don't worry, there is still so much we don't know! And, you have experienced the thrill of discovery.
Wow😮
"The rest, as they say, is microbiology."
Ah yes, that most famous of sayings!
Lol
Someone seriously needs to make a movie about van Leeuwenhoek! With the birth of the royal society, science was finally taking an evidence-based approach to reasoning. Like, people had just established that unicorns didn’t exist because they hadn’t been observed. Notwithstanding the groundbreaking scientific progress coming out of this group (ever heard of Isaac Newton?), van Leeuwenhoek fiercely guarded his microscopes and had a rocky relationship with these guys for a while. Van Leeuwenhoek was curious and an expert naturalist. He loved bringing his microscopes to parties to show his friends the unseen world. I have no doubt that he has inspired countless people both back then and now to not only see the world in new ways, but also seek to understand it.
Have a look at "The Baroque Cycle", by Neil Stephenson.
Unicorns do exist though.
It was indeed a special time, van Leeuwenhoek, Christiaan Huygens, Spinoza, Newton and many more, all these people lived at the same time, and knew each other, even met each other, used each others work. They together revolutionized the world, probably without fully realizing their impact themselves as that is usually impossible when you are in the middle of it.
Hank i know you are busy but your voice is like 70% of why i watch this series
"I have usually of a morning a well-formed stool" will be my next tattoo.
I suspect the sentence in Dutch was s’ochtends heb ik een goed gevormde drol
@@woutijland4983 if I ask a Dutch tattooist to put the phrase on my back, I assume the real translation will be "fat American thinks he's funny but smells like stool."
I had to snicker very childishly when Hank announced that the video was being sponsored by Curiosity Stream. Having just discussed another stream that led to curiosity.
Sounds like a crappy idea
Put it as ur fb status 😆
Clifford Dobbell's introduction to his biography of van Leeuwenhoek should be required reading for all students of any sort. Seriously, that gave me the best sort of frisson, right down my spine. When we stop learning, we stop living.
Also, "animalcules" is the most lovely, whimsical name for wee beasties (and not-beasties) ever.
I'm sure he thought his discoveries were the most whimsical thing imaginable lol.
Pretty good pronunciation of "Leeuwenhoek". I'm impressed :-)
Anton Verhulst
Exactly! I allready wanted to post this as a comment
Hank is nothing if not diligent. The lengths he goes to ensure he pronounces things correctly is astonishing; this is completely evident in some of the many SciShow videos he's hosted.
That "V" in there is so unnecessary though XD "Lay-wen-hook" would work better for Hank I think ^^
He did his research though luckily this name doesn't really have any hard traps for English speakers.
Hank, your voice is like a warm, comfy blanket for my soul.
The dislike is from leewenhoek himself for revealing his work
I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice this, but Hank puts on a surprisingly different voice for these videos. It's so much warmer and closer than how he sounds when presenting for SciShow or waxing contemporaneous on vlogbrothers. I like it!
Isn't it true that he actually invented the microscope to examine the fabric he bought more closely, giving him an advantage in the textile trading industry?
Is dit een hint naar de cross-over waar we allemaal op zitten te wachten?!
He did not invent the microscope.
Yea, I believe so too. He doesn't invented *the* Microscope though, he invented a microscope that has something like 200x magnification of the older makes for that very purpose of Quality-checking Textile from his Drapery shop
So is that why he didn't want to divulge his methods?
When a Dutch name contains 'van', it is included when you only say the surname. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek would be called Mr. Van Leeuwenhoek, just like Vincent van Gogh is Mr. Van Gogh, not Mr. Gogh.
Just emphasise; It's either Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek, or Van Leeuwenhoek. :)
That's good to know😊
Beautiful video! Leeuwenhoek called them "diertgens" or "little animals". It was Oldenburg who translated "diertgens" as "animalcules". Hence the title of Dobell's biography, "AvL and his 'little animals'", in which he refers to him as Leeuwenhoek (not Van Leeuwenhoek), as do I on the Lens on Leeuwenhoek website.
Your pronunciation of van Leewenhoek is nearly perfect. Van in van Leeuwenhoek is the only part that could be better. The a in it is pronounced is in the Ahs and ohs when you are surprised (but very short). I like it when people try to pronounce names correctly.
While I mainly just wanted to say I am consistently blown away by the quality of the footage on this channel, especially recently, I really appreciate the history that goes along with a lot of that footage. Sometimes that style of presentation makes me feel like I'm along for the ride, asking the same questions that are about to be mentioned, and it makes it feel like I own a tiny part of that discovery, at least in the sense that I'll actually remember a lot of it.
Then there's things like this, where I'm really just too entranced by wiggly things under a lens to be asking too many questions of my own in the moment, but things still manage to stick in ways that they never do as footnotes in a textbook or a bleary-eyed Wikipedia crawl even when I have genuine interest to begin with.
Imagine having to learn a new language just to translate some text, we are so spoiled by google translate xD
Imagine learning a new language just to translate some text. Only to find out that the text was written so lang ago that you still needed a native translator to find out what was written.
@@gewoonik687 Thinking on the ones who deciphered cuneiform writing...
although with google translate a lot of the nuance can be lost over really learning the language.
google translate doesn't work, it only seems to work at the superficial level.
if you want to learn something you either need a real translation or to learn the language
@@monad_tcp Google translate is good only for LOLs
Thank you so much for labelling some slides "Animalcules" 🦀
What a beautiful biography! Very well written.
As a Dutch Patrion I want to thank the journey for giving me this insight into one of my country's great explorers
You mean great. Grate is cross hatched metal.
@@ericbitzer5247 that is a 100% correct. I changed it immediately. Lest anyone gets the wrong idea about what I mend 😜
@@Pannekoek. Lol!
Amazingly crisp images today
I was just listening to a different you when i saw this pop up.
I often think of how through this platform, your thoughts will outlive you.
I sometimes think about the children of these creators having such a long history of their parents recorded for as long as youtube exists. Or their grandkids being able to watch their lives and how/what they uploaded. Compared to only still photos in b&w there will be a lot more family trees with videos and progression of the people in them.
When I was 3 years old, I asked a librarian for anything by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek. 'What?' she said.
Held
I'm glad, I found this channel.
I like how they casually describe learning Dutch like it's an easy language to pick up
Watching this while eating lunch 🍽
These videos are so fascinating! I am like binge watching all from this channel!
I love this series! I can't wait to share with my students ❤️
pissabed is still used in dutch for woodlice, the a just became an "en", so pissenbed.
and kudo's to Hank pronounciation of leeuwenhoek, if you pronounce the "W" like the "R" that tom scott uses you will sound just right.
Well, at least he didn't fall fall for the "Liivenh'k" trap, but somehow the w still ends up sounding like a v.
If he'd asked me I'd have advised to say it like "LAY-when-hook".
These videos make me so happy, plain and simple. Thank you.
I was just watching a video about Leeuwenhoek, and I thought of asking Journey to the Microcosmos to do a video about him! So I opened youtube to ask him, but then I saw this video was on my recommended.
Nothing gets my curiosity sparked more than microbiology
I love this so much!!
Most marvelous, indeed. What an interesting mind he must have had, to find so much wonder in things so small. And to so stubbornly refuse to share the things he saw - perhaps because he did not want notoriety? Or because he felt that others should do as much work as he had done to earn the privilege of visiting these tiny, seemingly magical worlds.
Great video!!!
Yay Hank is back!
The Dutch language underwent a major modernization and revision in the 1830s, drastically altering the vocabulary. Even many modern native modern Dutch speakers have trouble with the old language.
@@SolaceEasy Spanish?
English did the same thing. Old english is practically a different lang
So the whole country had to re-learn their language in a decade? Woah.
@@ananyaravikumar5069 more like making it more uniform, i.e. conforming it to the language the way it was spoken in the West of the country. Plus like in older English, the spelling and grammar were probably all over the place.
And funny enough, even then the accent differences between cities only a few dozen kilometers from each other. Were absolutely wild.
Only the modern communication age made these mostly melt together.
James, your DIC work just keeps getting better and better!
This history lesson got me thinking: how much evolution has occurred between the microscopic creatures of 300 years ago vs today? How different would a Spirogyra look then vs today? How would we know?
Small correction for the title: His last name is Van Leeuwenhoek, not just Leeuwenhoek.
That's like saying I'm going to Donalds when you mean McDonalds.
this was a bad video for me to watch while eating, but it quenched my thirst for learning something new regardless. very fascinating stuff!
I think that Leeuwenhoek described his lenses as something he polished into shape. Yet the reason so many right after him failed is they tried that lens making approach, is because Leeuwenhoek's secret was that he actually used a flame to make small glass beads from thin strands of glass.
His glass had some chemicals in it that bent red and blue light differently, which makes the image dramatically sharper.
LET’S GOOOOO
*has diarrhea
Leeuwenhoek: _o b s e r v e t h e a n i m a l s w i t h i n_
When you know immediately what a "pissebed" is/looks like :p
I feel like "little animals" can never captivate the "kleine beestjes" translation completely.
This video is a masterpiece. Thank you for this amazing work
That nematode moves like a Harryhausen claymation monster.
Wow the Vorticella at about 7:19 just destroys everything around it 😳
Amazing facts and presentation too ! ❤
Actually he refers to a "pissebed" which is an isopod generally know to English people as the woodlouse!
1:17 Yellow flowercules
6:44 A corkscrewcule
I see a paramecium and I have two striking thoughts: science and disease.
My 5th grade science report now comes full circle
in modern dutch a woodlouse is called "pissebed" . just one letter difference . i think 17th century dutch wasn't *that* weird . . . not much weirder than today's dutch , anyhow .
He:- Got diahorrea and discovered microbiology.
Newton:- Got pandemic and discovered Calculus and Gravity.
Me:- Got both of them, but discovered this video while ehile sitting on toilet
0:56 - Henry, there, has, Monster High, hands, w/ the middle fingers stuck together, leaving the pinky & index finger, separate.
Thanks JM, I could sit and watch bacteria for hours, it's our inner space alien world.
To see a digital film about our own inner cell workings see Drew Berry, Animations of Unseeable Biology,
It's brilliantly made and helps me understand me better.
8:05 literally literally well played
Giardia is not fun. I had several friends doing their MS.Geography, who got sick from drinking from high Alpine streams in N. Cent. WA state.
They assumed were clean. They almost never are, even though few humans get to visit them. But animals do! One girl came back doubled over with abdominal bleeding. This guy treats giardia like a personal science project in his body!🤔
Guess he made it fun.
Yep. And unlike most hikers and campers, animals have no issues with pissing and shitting in the water they drink. So guys, *PLEASE* FILTER OR BOIL YOUR WATER.
Just because it's clear and cold when it gets to you, doesn't mean a moose isn't having its morning constitutional a mile upstream from you...
Oh god, internal bleeding!
As good a reason as any to learn Dutch.
How odd. Last week my daughter sent me a video of my 2 year old grandson discovering a woodlouse. She and he live in Ireland, and I was curious as to what the woodlouse was called locally. I told her it was a beast of many names, like "pill bug" "sow bug" "roly poly" and a number of others. And now we have "Pissabed".
Armadillos. Thats what we call them here.
5:45 As someone who speaks dutch, I know what that is. And I am convinced that most of my friends do aswell.
edit: google even autocorrects pissabed to the correct spelling for me.
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Morning guys!!!
It’s 11:12 pm here in Bangladesh
19:15 Central Europe :)
Happy well-formed stool!
This episode was so beautiful
Uh…
6:00 why would he have had to find a 17th century disctionary to find out what a pissebed is? We still call them that way
And yes, that is a combination of the words pee and bed, I have no clue why
It comes from an old remedy for when you have trouble urinating. They would crush it it up with herbs and boiled water. That's what people told me when I grew up.
The guy probably did not have any access to anybody who spoke both Dutch and English. I don't think people back then had much incentive to learn English (and vice versa).
@@ikt32 he learned Dutch so I think he would be fine, with some one who could read old dutch or any native Dutch person with a good gasp of there own language. But you are kind of right in the early 1900s the mainstream science was usually in German. English starred to become more important as the westernworld started to Americanise their culture. Although they where very much helped by the fact that the Brits spoke English and had conolised half the world.
Time to put History on Trial...
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Beautiful!
NEDERLAND! WOOHOO!!
Is anyone else having an issue where the Roku app only streams a 720, instead of the 1080p that should be?
Of course he was a Draper; another curious scientist.
Fantástico
Robert Hooke: "Hey, I was playing around with some chemical reagents and electricity collected from a lightning bolt, and look! LOOK!!! These weird Ascaria showed up out of nowhere. I mean I didn't do anything wrong, like uhmm trammel into God's demesne of something? A fearful mob with torches and sharp implements isn't going break my door down and commit grievous bodily harm?"
This makes me so happy. I have ibs
When you wake up and feel something burst... Thanks
Leeuwenhoek: You guys smell somthing...
Guy: check your top lip
I feel compelled to correct the pronunciation of van Leeuwenhoek's surname. It's "fun lee-ooh-vin-hook".
Quite a captivating subject! 😁
Any chance you can do a video on Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe as well?
"Pissebed" is still used the most of the time in Dutch.
So do the Giadia from Italy cook better then the Giadia's from Holland?
So therefore I conclude that diarrhea is hereditary since it run through our jeans.
What do you think of Leeuwenhoek keeping his methods to himself? How would that kind of "I won't share my technology advancements" be received today? I am genuinely curious what you think.
Considering that lenses had military applications with seafaring and the Third Anglo-Dutch War had just been concluded with the fourth around the corner it's sort of remarkable that he send anything to the the Royal Society.
Edit: Sorry, the third war had just concluded, but the forth would take another century. Mixed up 1600 and 1700.
06:45 so beautifull
Great video
Nice title! 👍
Wow!
Is there a nanocosmos? Animals much smaller than have been seen? What is the limit?
Never too curious I guess
All I know about van leeuwenhoek is from Objectivity
oh good... just when I am experiencing ice cream induced diarrhea...
I wonder if Van Hoenheims name was inspired by him, if very loosely
dutchy here, why do you say levenhoek, its leeuwenhoek, you pronounce it starting with a *l eː w
edit: pissebed = woodlouse
second edit: oke you got it, haha i pauzed to type it when i saw that the translation wasnt made
what are those stalks at 2:20?
That was the alternate title for my autobiography. (I have a lot of food allergies....._
I don't feel like watching anymore. My curiosity isn't streaming like it used to.
Wow
WHAAAAAAAT??? THAT early??? Did people still think the world was flat? Yet people were already using microscopes to look at micro organisms???? That just sounds....bonkers!