What Goes Up (Pt 2)

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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What do a professor, a heretic, a clockmaker, a barber, a cantor, a laborer, an architect, an alchemist and a couple of bonafide renaissance men all have in common? All of them tried to fly, and none of them succeeded. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Visit our Patreon here. BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	This is the constant, a history of getting things wrong.
0:53.3	I'm Mark Chrysler, and this is
0:55.5	what goes up, part two. Chapter 6. The Professor
1:03.0	In the year 1232, Bon Campano de Signa, professor oforic at the University of Padua, announced he would fly.
1:13.6	He told all of Bologna to come to the foot of a mountain to the south of the city if they wanted to see a man take wing, and they did, so they did.
1:21.9	On the appointed morning, men, women and children, young and old, noble and peasant, learned and pleb,
1:28.4	came to the base of the Apennine Mountains to see Bon Campano di Cigna,
1:32.9	professor of rhetoric, standing high above them, wearing a set of wings behind his arms.
1:39.4	If you're keeping track, we've taken care of the when and the where,
1:43.3	1232, the base of the
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