What if we tell history in a different way? 7 books that do...

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What if we would tell history in a different way? Instead of talking about wars, colonialism, struggle and princes and presidents... we could instead maybe talk about the history of human knowledge.

In this episode I want to share with you 7 books that tell our human story in a different way... I hope you enjoy the episode 🌟📚📖😁🌟:

0:00 Intro to the episode
1:25 Why telling history differently?
3:19 Book 1: The Darkening Age - Cathrine Nixey
5:09 Book 2: The Map of Knowledge - Violet Moller -
7:12 Book 3: The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
9:13 Intermediate conclusion - the detours of knowledge
10:28 Book 4: The Light Ages - Seb Falk

12:34 The Astrolabe - Geoffrey Chaucer - Mashallah ibn Athari
14:25 Montolieu and the Polestar - Startrail image

16:57 Book 5: Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of experimental science - A.C. Crombie
18:49 Book 6: Infinitesimal - Amir Alexander
21:16 Book 7: Burning the Books - A history of knowledge under attack - Richard Ovenden

22:52 Conclusion and quote by al Nadim

[nomaddenise]

Your opening paragraphs have me hooked. This is a large part of the way I try to teach my sons history.

[edusous]

Wow.. speechless. Thanks a thousand times!

[ismaelsabere]

Great video, thanks a lot. I particularly appreciate your approach to history, it briefly shows how the different cultures contributed to the creation and transfer of knowledge.
It also confirms a fascinating fact that travels through ages: humans can be amazing doing the impossible to learn and create... Just as they can be brutal creatures spreading fear and terror.

[mimimayhem]

You bring up great points here. I think is one of the best booktube channels. It's intellectual, informative and engaging. The videos are well produced, too. I just dislike most of booktube, but channels like yours are an alternative to the pretentious "book haul" videos, TBRs and dark academia.

[jackierahmani]

I always like to learn about different perspectives, points of view and the small things that change everything. Thanks for an interesting reading list !

[NasBench]

Fantastic stuff and a what great set of books. Thanks as always for this great content.

[alooishh]

Amazing. I am short of words right now to describe how I am feeling at this instant after watching this video. You are also a very good story-teller, how good compared to Seb; for that I need to read the Light Ages. But overall I am intrigued with the whole idea of use of knowledge (particularly Mathematics) in establishing the current world order.

Thank you so much. I am indebted to you for these deep insights.

Xoxo

[Saber]

We would just see it through different lenses