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I'm Christopher Clark, Cambridge historian.
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I was born in Australia.
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For Europeans, that's practically the other end of the world
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but the European continent
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and its incredible diversity always fascinated me.
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Even in the far off country where I grew up,
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I was always aware that so much of our world
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has its roots in Europe
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and modern Europe is one of the greatest achievements
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in human history.
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I want to share the grand saga of this continent
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and in the process, I hope to rediscover its wonders
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for myself.
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Europe, the very name conjures up images
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of change, unrest and violence
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but the continent has also been an incubator of civilization
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where wonderful things are created.
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Florence in the early 15th century
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is one good example.
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Florence's ascendency
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is reflected in the architecture of its cathedral.
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The city fathers are aiming high,
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they want an enormous dome to crown this building.
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No one has attempted such a feat
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since the days of ancient Rome.
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They plan to build the largest vaulted stone ceiling
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in the world.
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This is one of the most distinctive features of this era,
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art, religion, politics and science
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merged in the great cultural projects of the day.
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The Medici financed this crowning feat
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of 15th century engineering
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not just out of piety
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but to celebrate the triumph of their power
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and that of the entire city of Florence.
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The Medici family supports numerous artists
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in this creative environment.
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One of them would soon become world famous,
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Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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Michelangelo creates
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what is probably the most famous sculpture
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in the history of art.
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from a block of the finest Carrara marble,
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he carves his David.
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The last time such a monumental marble statue
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had been sculpted in Italy
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was over 1,000 years earlier
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in the days of the Roman empire.
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A biblical figure naked like a Greek boy.
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It was provocative to say the least.
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Other Italian cities are also flourishing.
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Venice holds trade monopolies for the mediterranean area,
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commercial revenues allow the city to grow
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into a bustling metropolis.
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Everything revolves around money.
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The Venetians are among the first bankers in history.
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They set up a bunco or a table
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where they conduct their business
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and they have to make a pledge to the republic
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that they will not steal or commit forgery or fraud.
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The wealth of the Italian city-states
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fuels the development of European culture
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and as is so often the case,
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the source of that wealth is competition.
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In the year 1500,
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Italy is just as divided as the rest of Europe.
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City-states compete for power and glory
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within a very limited geographical era.
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In Venice, the Doge's
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are the powerful rulers of the republic.
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In Florence, the wealthy clan of the Medici
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are the ones who call the shots.
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They're among the most important patrons
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of the great Italian masters.
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The house of Sforza commissions Leonardo da Vinci
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to paint The Last Supper.
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Sandro Botticelli paints his Birth of Venus
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to order for the Medici family in Florence.
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And Raphael's School of Athens
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is created for the Bourgeois in the Vatican.
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The largest and most famous work of this era
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stems from the hands of the Florentine master Michelangelo
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commissioned by the papal court in Rome
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in a bid to assert the papacy's cultural authority in Italy.
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The ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel.
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This commission required Michelangelo
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to paint 520 square meters of surface area
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all above his head,
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an incredible feat.
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He placed full scale sketches onto the plaster
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and poked the lines through with nails or spatulas.
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It took Michelangelo four years
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to complete the ceiling fresco.
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This is the great era of the image.
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In this respect, it resembles our own time.
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But these pictures didn't need a textural gloss.
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They developed a life of their own.
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With gay abandon, the artist Michelangelo
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simply tosses the old and the new testament together
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in a single painting.
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This fresco by Michelangelo
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is one of the best known images
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in the history of humanity.
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You can see it just over there in the Sistine Chapel.
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The finger of the creator and his human creation
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almost touch.
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To depict the relationship between them in this way
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was not just courageous,
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it was revolutionary.
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God and his human creation are depicted here
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as embodying an equal dignity.
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What an elevation for humankind.
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Adam, the first man,
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confronts us as a confident autonomous being
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and this in a chamber consecrated to the worship of God.
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Incidentally, Michelangelo himself
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had absolutely no lack of self confidence.
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The papal master of ceremonies Biagio da Cesena commented,
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"It was most disgraceful that in so sacred a place
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"there should've been depicted all those nude figures
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"exposing themselves so shamefully
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"and that the painting was more suitable
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"for public bath houses and taverns."
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Da Cesena had every reason to be upset.
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Among them, a personal one
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because in the panel entitled The Last Judgment,
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Michelangelo depicts Da Cesena as Minos,
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judge of the underworld being bitten in the genitals
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by a snake.
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For his David and the figures
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in his Sistine Chapel frescoes,
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Michelangelo devises his measurements
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from real people.
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But he wants to do more than just reproduce actual beauty.
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He strives for perfection
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like his role models the ancient Greek sculptors.
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They also aspire to achieve perfect proportionality
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in their lifelike statues.
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The Greeks were perfectionists.
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They were sharp observers.
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The precision of their art
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bears witness to an obsession with mimesis,
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the precise imitation of nature.
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The ripples in the dress,
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the detail of the human hand.
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But they also strove towards an ideal.
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In contrast to modern conceptions,
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they did not think in terms of standardized sizes.
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Proportionality was the key,
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how big or tall someone was mattered little
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as long as the rest of their body was in proportion.
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Their aesthetics were mathematical.
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The ideal face had to conform to specific ratios.
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The small penis we see on classical figures
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symbolized masculine self control.
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And for women, a well formed and voluminous bottom
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was deemed especially attractive.
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The golden ratio applied to humans and architecture
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in equal measure.
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It's as evident in the Parthenon Temple
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here on the Acropolis
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as it is in the Venus of Milo,
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the famous statue of Aphrodite,
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goddess of beauty, love and sensual desire.
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Europe has never abandoned this ideal of beauty.
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You can trace it like a red thread
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through the entire history of European art.
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Michelangelo's era takes its name
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from this rediscovery of ancient art
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and its celebration of the naked human form,
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the Renaissance.
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Renaissance means rebirth
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but what exactly was reborn?
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In part it was the cultural heritage of the ancient world,
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the essence of what had defined Europe
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at the beginning of our story.
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The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans
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had triggered a wave of refugees
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and among these refugees were scholars
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who carried with them ancient manuscripts.
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A wave of enthusiasm for the ancient world
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rolled across Europe.
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Scholars from many lands scoured the continent
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for manuscripts by Greek and Roman authors.
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Some of these works had quietly spent the Middle Ages
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sequestered in monasteries.
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Others had come to Spain via the Islamic academies.
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And now, they triggered a profound sea change in culture.
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Humanist and researcher Paolo Boccalini,
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also joins in the search.
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Come, follow me.
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He is determined to find a book
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from the first century before Christ, De rerum natura
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by the Roman philosopher Lucretius.
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This book, a didactic summary of Greek epicurean thought,
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presents a dynamic analysis of the natural world
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completely decoupled from any concept of God.
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Maybe here you'll find what you're looking for.
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Boccalini eventually tracks down
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his quarry in a benedictine abbey
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in the German city of Fulda.
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Lucretius had created a compendium
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of what we would today describe as natural science.
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His book comprises no fewer than 7,800 verses
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in which he explains the nature of the world
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and how people can subsist happily within it
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without the need to fear gods of any kind.
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The book addresses profound existential questions
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and that's why Boccalini wants to find it.
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(dramatic music)
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What an interesting and characteristically European
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synergy between old and new.
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By shining a fresh light onto the past,
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one brings into view a new future.
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Of course, this is only possible
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because traces of antiquity
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can still be found all over Europe
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only when you study them more closely
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as the men and women of the Renaissance did,
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does the breathtaking extent
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of ancient philosophy and knowledge come to light,
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knowledge of those hidden forces
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that hold the world together from inside
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as the German poet Goethe would later put it.
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Writing in Rome 50 years before the birth of Christ,
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Lucretius described in euphoric terms
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the fearless inquisitive spirit
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of the old Greeks.
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"The Greek philosopher Epicurus," Lucretius Wrote,
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"explored with spirit and sense
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"the endless realms of the universe
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"returned as a victor
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"to teach us what can be and what cannot."
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Already for Lucretius then,
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this was a moment of rediscovery
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and 1,500 years later,
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Lucretius himself would be rediscovered
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and with him the entire intellectual dynamics
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of ancient knowledge.
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It was a typically European interplay of old and new.
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Only through the illumination of the past
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did a new future become visible.
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For those caught in the cultural vortex of the Renaissance
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this really was a rebirth
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and yet the question still remains,
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how was all this possible?
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Lucretius' book played a role of course
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but another precondition was necessary,
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one that has always featured prominently
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in great cultural transformations,
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a critical mass of talented people
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among whom ideas,
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including some that had been conceived 1,500 years before
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could fall on fertile ground and germinate.
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Renovation in intellectual and economic life,
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the patriotism of flourishing city-states
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and fierce competition for the best tradespeople and artists
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fueled this tumultuous epoch.
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Ancient philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
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had generated a remarkable fabric
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of thoughts and arguments,
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a special kind of mindset.
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Their reasoning had little to do with sacred scripture.
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It was founded on the observation of human affairs
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and the natural world.
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Men like Archimedes discover that complex phenomena
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can be accounted for through simple general rules,
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rules that apply universally in all places and all times
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without exception.
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Geometry invented by the Greeks
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sparks a revolution in thinking.
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Galileo Galilee,
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the father of modern physics,
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also follows in the tradition of the Greeks.
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"The universe, that great book, is ever before our eyes,"
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writes Galileo,
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"but the book is written in the language of mathematics."
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Only through the careful quantification of his observations
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is Galileo able to discern consistent patterns
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and to develop his law of falling bodies.
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This is also the period
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when the European universities begin their unstoppable rise,
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each researcher builds on the work of others
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across the diverse regions of Europe
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creating healthy and exciting competition.
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Universities like Cambridge lead the way.
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Once a year, it's possible to experience
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what a healthy competition between universities
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looks like
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at the great boat race between Cambridge and Oxford.
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It's quite tough and it's taken very seriously.
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The two universities regard each other
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as peer institutions
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but they also want to outperform each other
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and even today, the race remains a potent symbol
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of the pursuit of excellence,
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not just in sport
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but in the intellectual arena as well.
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From the beginning,
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competition has been one of the driving motors
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of European history.
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Life on this continent has been marked
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by constant rivalry between dynasties, countries
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and cities
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and soon also between universities and researchers
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who strove with all their might
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to discover what held the world together.
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And here in England,
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another decisive element came into play,
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the joy of experimentation,
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of observing and interpreting
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the processes at work in the natural world.
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Italian mathematician Galileo Galilee
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laid the groundwork
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but it's an Englishman who finally identifies
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and theorizes the mysterious force
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that brings everything falling to the ground,
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Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity.
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Was it really the apple that lead to Newton's breakthrough?
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Even today it seems,
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centuries after his death,
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poor Newton can't shake that myth.
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Here under the walls of Trinity College
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there's an apple tree that stems from the original tree
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from which the apple is supposed to have fallen
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on Newton's head.
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In reality of course, Newton's revolutionary discoveries
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have less to do with falling apples
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than with the bible
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which he read everyday.
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Newton owned 30 bible editions
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in a variety of languages.
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That might seem strange to us today
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but back then it was anything but.
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As a scientist,
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Newton was deeply rooted in the Christian faith
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and in the conviction that faith and reason
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do not and indeed cannot contradict each other.
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Why should it not be God
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who infused objects with gravity?
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By studying the bible,
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Newton also comes to believe
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that God is not a trinity
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but rather an unified force
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that encompasses the entire world
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and this in turn, leads him to the idea
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that time and space are the sensorium of God,
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theology becomes physics and vice versa.
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But Newton's rejection of the trinity
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made him a heretic.
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To the church, God was composed of three persons.
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For Newton, there was no fundamental tension
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between faith and science.
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They formed a unity,
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observation was the highest form of prayer.
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And so it seems appropriate
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that he should be buried in Westminster Abbey,
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arguably the most important church
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in the kingdom of Britain.
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The inscription on his tomb reads,
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"Nature and nature's laws
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"lay hidden night,
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"and God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light."
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This captures something real about Newton's era,
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an era in which great achievements
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were still associated with the fulfillment
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of god's will.
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This would soon change
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and 200 years later,
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Charles Darwin also from Cambridge,
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would shake and remake the world of knowledge.
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Here he lies directly beside Newton.
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Only over millions of years, Darwin proposed,
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did life on Earth develop into what it is today.
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The species as we know them were not created by God
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but were rather the result
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of an evolution, a development.
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It followed that the high apes were our closest relatives.
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These were scandalous claims.
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In Darwin's case,
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it was not scientific observation as such
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that rocked the foundations of traditional religion
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but the displacement of divine revelation by history.
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It was Darwin, the natural historian,
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whose thinking transformed the modern world.
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Since then,
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Darwin's theory has been confirmed many times over
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even if it has failed to convince those
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who see in the bible a literal description of the creation.
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Since the ancient Greeks,
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the search for a rational explanation for worldly phenomena
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and their induction to simple formulae,
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has been the basis of scientific thought in Europe.
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And so it remains today.
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The Polish mathematician and astronomer,
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Nicholas Copernicus,
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observes that the Earth revolves around the sun.
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The Italian Galileo Galilee
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delivers further arguments to support that claim.
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The Englishman Isaac Newton,
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discovers gravity,
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and the German Jew Albert Einstein,
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carries on their work
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with his theory of relativity.
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A European relay race through the centuries.
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Since the days of the ancient Greeks,
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the search for a simple comprehensive formula
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has formed the basis of scientific thought in Europe
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and it remains so even today.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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What is man, what is he not,
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and of what stuff is the world made?
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Ancient Greece was the theater
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of an intellectual revolution.
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There were numerous schools of thought,
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an archipelago of little academies
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whose philosophers competed bitterly with one another.
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Some observed and experimented,
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others searched for philosophical answers.
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One Greek thinker
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who stood out for his curiosity and creativity
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was Heron.
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1,400 years before Leonardo da Vinci,
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this engineer and mathematician
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was already constructing complex machines
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such as a vending apparatus
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that could dispense both milk and wine,
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a wind powered organ
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and an early precursor of the steam engine.
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The philosopher Democratus,
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hit upon the idea
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that he could, in theory,
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keep slicing an apple
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into ever smaller pieces
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as I'm doing just here.
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Could you simply continue doing this forever?
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Democratus suspected that the answer was no.
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He thought that one would eventually arrive
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at indestructible little spheres
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that could not be subdivided.
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He called them atoms
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with the Greek work (speaking in foreign language)
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indivisible.
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2,400 years later,
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we're still pushing at this frontier
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and we're doing it at the heart of Europe.
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And here at the Cern Research center in Geneva
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the search inaugurated by Democratus continues.
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13,000 scientists from 85 countries
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hunt for the smallest particle,
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demonstrating in the process
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that the ancient principles still apply.
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You posit a theory
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and then you use experiments to test it.
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And in this place, we're dealing with no less a matter
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than the basic principles of our universe.
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This is fundamental science drive by curiosity alone.
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The biggest machine in the world
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is used to study the smallest particles of matter
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with the aide of an immense particle accelerator
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some 27 kilometers in length,
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a tunnel into the furthest frontiers of our understanding
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and within it, the fastest particle accelerator
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in the world.
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What are you trying to achieve with all this machinery?
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I think what we try to reach
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is to answer fundamental question
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which mankind ever had,
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it's the questions who are we, where do we come from
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and where do we go to?
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Is there something special
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about the architecture of public science in Europe
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that makes this kind of work possible?
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I think yes, Europe is very special.
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So when Cern was founded in 1954,
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it was very special that Europeans get together
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and fund this research.
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And now, with the European Research Council,
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this is even more
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and even helps fundamental science even more
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to do research.
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Democratus' apple was a little less expensive.
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This particle accelerator
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costs as much as 20 football stadiums
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and is longer than any Formula One racetrack.
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Physicists plan to use this machine,
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the biggest in the world,
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for just one thing,
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to find tiny particles.
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Here in Europe, the door is opening
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to a new dimension of physics.
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Partnerships at the European level
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are nothing new, of course.
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Galileo Galilee corresponded with his European colleagues
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including his young admirer, Johannes Keplar
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who was particularly fascinated with the moon
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and Galileo draws up the very first map of the moon.
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There's an inscription on this famous Berninin elephant
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in the center of Rome
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that says, "Whoever you are,
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"view this monument as a lesson,
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"namely, that only a robust spirit
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"can sustain a powerful insight."
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Which is ironic
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because it was just a stone's throw from here
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behind these walls in 1633
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that Galileo Galilee was forced before the inquisition
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to recant his assertion
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that the Earth rotated around the sun.
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He had demonstrated this quite clearly
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in his dialog concerning the two chief world systems,
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a book that until 1825 remained on the Vatican's list
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of banned texts.
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Although science has of course long proved
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that indeed the Earth did rotate around the sun
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and not the other way around.
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The Renaissance changed Europe and the world
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in almost every domain.
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And in the process, entrenched positions of power
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were often called into question.
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For a further 300 years,
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the Roman church will persist
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in considering heliocentrism
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to be a heretical doctrine.
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The inquisition forces Galileo to recount his theories
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and the church doesn't admit its mistake until 1992
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when Galileo is ultimately vindicated
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by Pope John Paul the Second.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Galileo's discoveries
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sparks developments
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that continue into our modern era.
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In the 1960s, people landed on the moon for the first time
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thanks in part to the expertise of European researchers
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who developed rocket technology
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during the second world war.
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9:34 AM,
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Apollo 15 lifted from the pad on its way to the moon.
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Walking on the moon
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would've been impossible for Galileo to imagine
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and yet he'd already shown how objects would behave
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in a world without an atmosphere.
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They all fall at the same rate,
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as the astronauts of the Apollo 15 mission demonstrate.
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These days, our knowledge of the universe,
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is growing ever more precise.
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We've inherited a learning process
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that began in Europe 500 years ago.
550
00:26:09,122 --> 00:26:09,955
During the Renaissance,
551
00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:12,102
people turned their attention
552
00:26:12,102 --> 00:26:13,878
not only to God and the heavens,
553
00:26:13,878 --> 00:26:15,128
but inward to themselves.
554
00:26:16,105 --> 00:26:18,710
One of the most inquisitive individuals of this era
555
00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:19,720
can be found in Florence.
556
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,513
His name is Leonardo da Vinci.
557
00:26:22,565 --> 00:26:24,865
He's already renowned for his many talents
558
00:26:24,865 --> 00:26:26,111
during his lifetime.
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00:26:26,111 --> 00:26:27,698
He's a pioneer.
560
00:26:27,698 --> 00:26:29,501
Sigmeud Freud would later say of him,
561
00:26:29,501 --> 00:26:32,267
"He was like a man who woke too early in the darkness
562
00:26:32,267 --> 00:26:34,327
"while everyone else was still asleep."
563
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,160
Leonardo designs countless devices,
564
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,160
diving equipment, submarines, and flying machines.
565
00:26:49,630 --> 00:26:50,780
Most of his inventions
566
00:26:50,780 --> 00:26:52,690
must have seemed like flights of fancy
567
00:26:53,660 --> 00:26:54,493
to his contemporaries,
568
00:26:54,493 --> 00:26:57,013
but in fact he was a man far ahead of his time.
569
00:27:08,227 --> 00:27:10,660
Not only is Leonardo a painter and an inventor,
570
00:27:10,660 --> 00:27:13,940
he's also a trailblazer in modern anatomy.
571
00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:16,370
Leonardo refuses to confine himself
572
00:27:16,370 --> 00:27:19,140
to superficial observations of the human body.
573
00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:22,390
Over the course of his scientific and artistic career,
574
00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:25,913
he dissects a total of 30 corpses.
575
00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:31,980
Leonardo's investigations yield new and precise insights
576
00:27:31,980 --> 00:27:34,390
into the inner workings of the human body
577
00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:36,610
and his exploration of corpses
578
00:27:36,610 --> 00:27:39,130
is a boon to more than just science,
579
00:27:39,130 --> 00:27:42,020
it also benefits the art world.
580
00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:44,810
Like many of the great masters of the age,
581
00:27:44,810 --> 00:27:47,720
Leonardo believes that understanding anatomy
582
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,560
is an important prerequisite
583
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,193
for capturing the human form on canvas.
584
00:27:54,650 --> 00:27:58,350
His most famous work is the painting known as the Mona Lisa
585
00:27:58,350 --> 00:28:00,280
which he starts in 1503
586
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,110
and keeps in his workshop until his death
587
00:28:03,110 --> 00:28:05,090
in May 1519
588
00:28:05,090 --> 00:28:07,623
with the excuse that it's not finished yet.
589
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:11,300
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
590
00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:13,330
is still the ultimate icon.
591
00:28:13,330 --> 00:28:15,710
When the 19th century critic Walter Payta
592
00:28:15,710 --> 00:28:17,140
contemplated this painting,
593
00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:20,670
he claimed to see in it the whole of European history,
594
00:28:20,670 --> 00:28:22,350
the animalism of Greece,
595
00:28:22,350 --> 00:28:23,880
the lust of Rome,
596
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,930
the mysticism of the Middle Ages,
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00:28:25,930 --> 00:28:27,900
the return of the pagan world,
598
00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:29,200
the sins of the Bourgeois.
599
00:28:30,128 --> 00:28:32,497
"She is older than the rocks among which she sits
600
00:28:32,497 --> 00:28:35,577
"like the empire she has been dead many times
601
00:28:35,577 --> 00:28:38,580
"and learned the secrets of the grave."
602
00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:40,600
Payta's words, not mine.
603
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,460
But if that really were the case
604
00:28:42,460 --> 00:28:44,270
then the Mona Lisa might well be
605
00:28:44,270 --> 00:28:47,133
the quintessential embodiment of Europe.
606
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,160
And it's probably the most renowned painting
607
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,140
the continent has ever produced.
608
00:28:53,140 --> 00:28:56,600
Every year, millions of people come to the Louvre in Paris
609
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:57,433
to admire it.
610
00:29:05,660 --> 00:29:08,000
Meanwhile, another capital city
611
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,420
dedicates itself to providing down to Earth entertainment
612
00:29:11,420 --> 00:29:12,640
for the masses,
613
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,823
a tradition that remains alive to this day.
614
00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:19,370
In 1599, London witnesses the birth
615
00:29:19,370 --> 00:29:23,142
of a public entertainment venue of a new type,
616
00:29:23,142 --> 00:29:25,800
the Globe Theater.
617
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,610
In this circular building,
618
00:29:27,610 --> 00:29:29,370
the man who might rightly be called
619
00:29:29,370 --> 00:29:31,140
Europe's greatest playwright
620
00:29:31,140 --> 00:29:33,050
stages his works.
621
00:29:33,050 --> 00:29:35,170
There is a unique artistic synthesis
622
00:29:35,170 --> 00:29:38,450
between this theater and the performances themselves.
623
00:29:38,450 --> 00:29:41,340
This is where the city's pleasure oriented denizens
624
00:29:41,340 --> 00:29:43,240
find exactly what they're looking for.
625
00:29:46,135 --> 00:29:49,960
What counted as entertainment in those days?
626
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,720
Public executions, cock fights and bear baiting,
627
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,490
or mystery and morality plays
628
00:29:55,490 --> 00:29:59,040
with devils, demons and allegorical figures?
629
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,290
And then along came a man
630
00:30:01,290 --> 00:30:03,980
who drew inspiration from these sources,
631
00:30:03,980 --> 00:30:05,710
an uninhibited spirit
632
00:30:05,710 --> 00:30:08,400
whose genius turned this turbulent world
633
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,980
into a work of art.
634
00:30:09,980 --> 00:30:11,790
William Shakespeare's plays
635
00:30:11,790 --> 00:30:13,670
drove audiences wild
636
00:30:13,670 --> 00:30:15,430
and it's impossible to explain
637
00:30:15,430 --> 00:30:17,750
the richness of his imaginary word
638
00:30:17,750 --> 00:30:21,140
without understanding the babylondon of his era,
639
00:30:21,140 --> 00:30:23,350
a sprawling city beside a river
640
00:30:25,077 --> 00:30:27,750
teeming with courtiers, merchants, artisans, navants,
641
00:30:27,750 --> 00:30:30,353
prostitutes, beggars and cutpurses.
642
00:30:31,243 --> 00:30:34,770
In Shakespeare's round Globe Theater,
643
00:30:34,770 --> 00:30:36,160
everything revolved
644
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,160
around the full vibrant emotionally charged lives
645
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,570
of human beings,
646
00:30:41,570 --> 00:30:44,710
and the public stood right in front of the stage.
647
00:30:44,710 --> 00:30:46,070
Shakespeare's theater
648
00:30:46,070 --> 00:30:48,897
encompassed the whole of human existence.
649
00:30:48,897 --> 00:30:51,410
"All the world's a stage,"
650
00:30:51,410 --> 00:30:53,277
says a character in As You Like It,
651
00:30:53,277 --> 00:30:56,020
"And all the men and women merely players."
652
00:30:56,020 --> 00:30:58,820
They have their exits and their entrances
653
00:30:58,820 --> 00:31:02,490
and one man at his time plays many parts.
654
00:31:02,490 --> 00:31:04,360
The ancient Greeks invented theater
655
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,220
as a cult for their Gods.
656
00:31:06,220 --> 00:31:07,780
Their dramas were intended
657
00:31:07,780 --> 00:31:10,640
to educate the citizens of the palace.
658
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,150
Shakespeare learnt from them of course
659
00:31:13,150 --> 00:31:16,990
but his primary goal was to hold a mirror up to society,
660
00:31:16,990 --> 00:31:18,880
to entertain his audiences
661
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,350
with a vision of the world they lived in.
662
00:31:21,350 --> 00:31:24,900
No other dramatist has had such a profound influence
663
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,683
on the evolution of treater across the world.
664
00:31:29,333 --> 00:31:31,900
With almost demonic energy,
665
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,240
Shakespeare churns out comedies and tragedies,
666
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,900
his works illuminate all the lights and shadows
667
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:39,330
of human existence.
668
00:31:39,330 --> 00:31:42,880
His writing gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of power,
669
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,670
a world of regicide, incest and magic.
670
00:31:46,670 --> 00:31:49,220
Plays like A Midsummer Night's Dream,
671
00:31:49,220 --> 00:31:50,400
As You Like It,
672
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,900
Hamlet, Othello and Romeo and Juliet,
673
00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,690
still move us, even after 500 years.
674
00:31:57,690 --> 00:31:59,810
Above all, Shakespeare's writing
675
00:31:59,810 --> 00:32:02,410
reflects the upheaval and cultural awakening
676
00:32:02,410 --> 00:32:04,150
taking place in Europe.
677
00:32:04,150 --> 00:32:06,880
His works hold up a mirror to a new age,
678
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,610
an age of restlessness
679
00:32:08,610 --> 00:32:12,240
in which a process of globalization led by Europe
680
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,543
is already in full swing.
681
00:32:18,610 --> 00:32:21,710
And the world around London was in flux.
682
00:32:21,710 --> 00:32:24,640
Shakespeare was born in 1564,
683
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,290
the same year as Galileo Galilee,
684
00:32:27,290 --> 00:32:28,360
the man who discovered
685
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,860
that the Earth was in constant motion,
686
00:32:30,860 --> 00:32:32,890
that it revolved around the sun.
687
00:32:32,890 --> 00:32:35,180
And Shakespeare too was a transformer.
688
00:32:35,180 --> 00:32:37,790
He revolutionized the world of drama,
689
00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:39,973
and the way stories were told on stage.
690
00:32:43,130 --> 00:32:44,780
A miracle,
691
00:32:44,780 --> 00:32:48,420
here's our own hands against our hearts.
692
00:32:48,420 --> 00:32:50,150
Come, I will have thee
693
00:32:50,150 --> 00:32:53,300
but by this light, I take thee for pity.
694
00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:55,950
Shakespeare is a courtly entertainer.
695
00:32:55,950 --> 00:32:57,260
Queen Elizabeth the First
696
00:32:57,260 --> 00:32:58,610
is his first patron
697
00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:00,650
and her successor would continue
698
00:33:00,650 --> 00:33:02,460
to support Shakespeare's work.
699
00:33:02,460 --> 00:33:05,050
Elizabeth the First loved the theater.
700
00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:07,780
Before her, it had been the exclusive domain
701
00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:08,770
of the nobility.
702
00:33:08,770 --> 00:33:11,103
She made it available to everyone.
703
00:33:13,580 --> 00:33:17,070
Members of all social classes come together here.
704
00:33:17,070 --> 00:33:20,680
On the stage, actors portray peasants, the bourgeois
705
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,670
and the nobility,
706
00:33:21,670 --> 00:33:24,453
groups that are also represented in the audience.
707
00:33:25,473 --> 00:33:26,310
This is a new phenomenon.
708
00:33:26,310 --> 00:33:28,820
The new social space of the theater
709
00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:31,943
prefigures the mass entertainment of our own day.
710
00:33:38,380 --> 00:33:41,270
Shakespeare was a hard act to follow
711
00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:42,690
but in the following centuries,
712
00:33:42,690 --> 00:33:44,840
countless European writers and performers
713
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,840
would further refine and expand
714
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,810
the spectrum of public entertainment
715
00:33:48,810 --> 00:33:51,570
sharing their own forms of artistic expression
716
00:33:51,570 --> 00:33:52,920
with the rest of the world.
717
00:33:54,150 --> 00:33:55,980
Berlin's Skladanowsky brothers
718
00:33:55,980 --> 00:33:59,060
announced one of the world's first public film screenings
719
00:33:59,060 --> 00:34:01,893
on November the 1st, 1895.
720
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:05,760
At around the same time,
721
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,430
the French Lumiere Brothers
722
00:34:07,430 --> 00:34:10,810
astonished Parisian audiences with their moving pictures.
723
00:34:10,810 --> 00:34:13,520
Film begins as a carnival attraction
724
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,360
but this seventh art
725
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,650
soon becomes a respected medium
726
00:34:17,650 --> 00:34:20,130
and in the grand Shakespearean tradition,
727
00:34:20,130 --> 00:34:23,680
the audience experiences the suspension of disbelief
728
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,393
and the rapid alternation of strong emotions.
729
00:34:29,357 --> 00:34:33,150
British performer Charlie Chaplin's meteoric rise
730
00:34:33,150 --> 00:34:36,153
begins in 1914 with his role as the Tramp.
731
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,900
Other European stars like Marlene Dietrich
732
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,010
also enjoy international careers.
733
00:34:43,010 --> 00:34:45,020
It isn't until after World War Two
734
00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:47,460
that Europe is relegated to second place
735
00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:50,263
in the world of the silver screen behind Hollywood.
736
00:34:51,525 --> 00:34:53,310
But Europeans will continue to play a vital role
737
00:34:53,310 --> 00:34:56,240
in Tinsel Town's golden era as well.
738
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:59,430
Billy Wilder, born in modern day Poland,
739
00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:02,250
Scotsman Sean Connery,
740
00:35:02,250 --> 00:35:04,113
Englishman Cary Grant,
741
00:35:05,123 --> 00:35:08,053
Austrian Christoph Waltz,
742
00:35:09,010 --> 00:35:11,860
and British Kate Winslet
743
00:35:11,860 --> 00:35:15,073
are just a few of Hollywood's legendary Europeans.
744
00:35:16,460 --> 00:35:19,440
The film industry creates imagery and role models
745
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,620
that everyone knows
746
00:35:20,620 --> 00:35:22,660
and many would like to emulate.
747
00:35:22,660 --> 00:35:25,560
Spectacle can be a form of mainstream entertainment,
748
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,970
a mirror in which society gazes at itself,
749
00:35:28,970 --> 00:35:31,000
but it can also be a tool of power
750
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,480
as it was in the Palace of Versailles.
751
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,950
All of this is one enormous stage
752
00:35:36,950 --> 00:35:39,890
with opulent scenery and props.
753
00:35:39,890 --> 00:35:42,740
This was absolutism under Louis the Fourteenth,
754
00:35:42,740 --> 00:35:46,490
refinement was an integral part of the courtly repertoire,
755
00:35:46,490 --> 00:35:48,040
elegance was crucial
756
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,793
in everything from architecture to clothing.
757
00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:54,290
Louis the fourteenth
758
00:35:54,290 --> 00:35:56,520
may be the greatest patron of the arts
759
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,290
the world has ever seen.
760
00:35:58,290 --> 00:36:01,290
Painting and music flourished under hist patronage,
761
00:36:01,290 --> 00:36:03,560
representative and monumental styles
762
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,770
were driven to excess,
763
00:36:04,770 --> 00:36:07,400
and the buildings and gardens of the period.
764
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,510
Power, art and craftsmanship joined hands.
765
00:36:11,510 --> 00:36:14,210
The court became a culture machine.
766
00:36:14,210 --> 00:36:15,350
This is one of the reasons
767
00:36:15,350 --> 00:36:17,980
why even today the very name of France
768
00:36:17,980 --> 00:36:21,193
is associated with beauty and aesthetic refinement.
769
00:36:22,940 --> 00:36:26,890
Versailles was to become the political theater of its time,
770
00:36:26,890 --> 00:36:30,720
the ambitious men and women who jostled for power here
771
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:32,380
were the players.
772
00:36:32,380 --> 00:36:34,810
In 1682, the enormous palace
773
00:36:34,810 --> 00:36:37,110
replaced the Louvre in Paris
774
00:36:37,110 --> 00:36:38,510
as the seat of government.
775
00:36:38,510 --> 00:36:40,470
And from then on the royal court,
776
00:36:40,470 --> 00:36:43,890
composed of ministers, civil servants, and noble families,
777
00:36:43,890 --> 00:36:46,260
lived and worked in Versailles,
778
00:36:46,260 --> 00:36:49,580
occupying no fewer than 2,000 rooms
779
00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:53,060
which housed up to 20,000 people in all.
780
00:36:53,060 --> 00:36:55,330
Louis the Fourteenth managed to concentrate
781
00:36:55,330 --> 00:36:58,940
his mightiest subjects in a single location
782
00:36:58,940 --> 00:37:00,640
and that's how he controlled them.
783
00:37:02,290 --> 00:37:03,297
The Duke of Saint-Simon
784
00:37:03,297 --> 00:37:06,107
describes the principle as follows,
785
00:37:06,107 --> 00:37:08,817
"the king loved splendor, lavishnous
786
00:37:08,817 --> 00:37:10,527
"and abundance in everything.
787
00:37:10,527 --> 00:37:12,277
"He deliberately encouraged
788
00:37:12,277 --> 00:37:14,347
"those around him to give in to their desire
789
00:37:14,347 --> 00:37:17,167
"to emulate him in every possible way.
790
00:37:17,167 --> 00:37:20,777
"He inculcated his entire court with this desire.
791
00:37:20,777 --> 00:37:22,177
"You could earn his favor
792
00:37:22,177 --> 00:37:25,837
"by spending extravagantly on your table, your clothes,
793
00:37:25,837 --> 00:37:27,197
"your (speaking in foreign language),
794
00:37:27,197 --> 00:37:29,307
"your household and your games.
795
00:37:29,307 --> 00:37:31,407
"Luxury became a matter of honor."
796
00:37:33,101 --> 00:37:35,150
One example of this extravagance
797
00:37:35,150 --> 00:37:38,290
is the daily ritual of watching the king dine.
798
00:37:38,290 --> 00:37:40,360
In this pleasure oriented era,
799
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,940
dining at the court takes on a whole new meaning.
800
00:37:43,940 --> 00:37:46,350
No European court is more important in this regard
801
00:37:46,350 --> 00:37:49,310
than the court of the Sun King in Versailles.
802
00:37:49,310 --> 00:37:52,230
His table manners it must be said,
803
00:37:52,230 --> 00:37:54,590
leave a lot to be desired.
804
00:37:54,590 --> 00:37:56,130
A century earlier,
805
00:37:56,130 --> 00:37:59,400
the Italian noblewoman Catherine de Medici
806
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,220
had tried to teach the French
807
00:38:01,220 --> 00:38:03,790
proper manners and fine dining.
808
00:38:03,790 --> 00:38:06,223
These customs had their roots in Italy.
809
00:38:14,450 --> 00:38:17,090
The style of the Sun King's court
810
00:38:17,090 --> 00:38:18,670
catches on in Europe.
811
00:38:18,670 --> 00:38:21,350
The architecture is especially popular.
812
00:38:21,350 --> 00:38:24,010
Local rulers particularly in Germany
813
00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:27,150
do more than just expand their residential cities,
814
00:38:27,150 --> 00:38:29,770
they also build new palace complexes
815
00:38:29,770 --> 00:38:33,340
with geometrically designed French gardens.
816
00:38:33,340 --> 00:38:35,160
In the later 17th century,
817
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,870
many European princes look towards France
818
00:38:37,870 --> 00:38:39,943
with admiration and envy.
819
00:38:42,250 --> 00:38:46,010
They also imitate French styles of furniture and clothing,
820
00:38:46,010 --> 00:38:48,350
a booming luxury industry springs up
821
00:38:48,350 --> 00:38:49,980
around the French royal court,
822
00:38:49,980 --> 00:38:52,773
an industry where France still leads the way today.
823
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,860
French luxury products
824
00:38:55,860 --> 00:38:58,680
become a top export in the 17th century.
825
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,160
Anything of French origin
826
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,210
is considered the height of elegance.
827
00:39:02,210 --> 00:39:05,400
The latest creations are presented on little dolls,
828
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,020
the fore runner of the mail order catalog
829
00:39:08,020 --> 00:39:11,547
and even back then, items were shipped all around Europe.
830
00:39:23,030 --> 00:39:25,250
Fashion conscious Europeans
831
00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:27,100
were already enchanted by France
832
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:29,260
in the days of the Sun King.
833
00:39:29,260 --> 00:39:31,440
They adored the refined style
834
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,970
inspired by the vanity fair of Versailles
835
00:39:33,970 --> 00:39:36,670
and found imitators across the continent.
836
00:39:36,670 --> 00:39:39,160
French clothing designs, hairstyles
837
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,730
and even the language were copied throughout Europe
838
00:39:41,730 --> 00:39:46,530
and French terms like (speaking in foreign language)
839
00:39:46,530 --> 00:39:49,940
are still used in the global fashion industry today
840
00:39:49,940 --> 00:39:51,640
and in the 20th century,
841
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,850
geniuses like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
842
00:39:54,850 --> 00:39:57,250
with their (speaking in foreign language) designs
843
00:39:57,250 --> 00:39:59,733
elevated fashion to an art form.
844
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:03,980
One thing has not changed
845
00:40:03,980 --> 00:40:05,890
since the days of the Sun King.
846
00:40:05,890 --> 00:40:09,390
Paris is still the undisputed fashion capital of Europe
847
00:40:09,390 --> 00:40:10,500
and the world.
848
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:13,000
The city is brimming with artisanal skills
849
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,280
and creativity.
850
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,020
Perhaps that's why even today,
851
00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:18,890
Paris produces the hottest new fashion trends
852
00:40:18,890 --> 00:40:20,203
year after year.
853
00:40:22,410 --> 00:40:25,030
Further to the east in Russia,
854
00:40:25,030 --> 00:40:28,560
there's still little trace of this flourishing new culture.
855
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,240
Only a handful of nobles
856
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:33,400
are even aware of what life is like in other countries.
857
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:34,980
The opportunity to travel
858
00:40:34,980 --> 00:40:36,290
has given them a perspective
859
00:40:36,290 --> 00:40:38,763
that extends beyond their own backyard.
860
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:43,690
Peter the Great is one of these privileged few.
861
00:40:43,690 --> 00:40:47,283
In 1697, he goes on a grand tour
862
00:40:47,283 --> 00:40:50,000
and it's hardly a solo journey.
863
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,770
A retenous of no fewer than 300
864
00:40:52,770 --> 00:40:55,483
accompanies him on his trip across Europe.
865
00:41:04,830 --> 00:41:07,010
His journey lasts 18 months
866
00:41:07,010 --> 00:41:10,670
and takes him to Poland, Prussia, Holland, England,
867
00:41:10,670 --> 00:41:12,800
Saxony and Austria.
868
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,510
His goal is to catch up with the Western powers
869
00:41:15,510 --> 00:41:16,810
of the European continent.
870
00:41:18,170 --> 00:41:20,590
From the Dutch, he learns shipbuilding
871
00:41:20,590 --> 00:41:24,160
and the Prussians teach him the art of cannon manufacture.
872
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,750
The English tutor him in finance.
873
00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:27,844
Upon his return,
874
00:41:27,844 --> 00:41:31,620
the czar begins the process of modernizing his country
875
00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:35,490
following the examples set by the European states.
876
00:41:35,490 --> 00:41:37,270
And the first thing he does
877
00:41:37,270 --> 00:41:39,440
is issue an official decree
878
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,030
declaring traditional beards illegal.
879
00:41:43,030 --> 00:41:46,200
Peter views them as a symbol of Russia's backwardness.
880
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,570
To enforce this ban,
881
00:41:47,570 --> 00:41:49,650
he leads by example
882
00:41:49,650 --> 00:41:53,506
and then sends barbers out to shave the masses.
883
00:41:53,506 --> 00:41:54,523
Come in.
884
00:41:56,290 --> 00:41:57,510
There's no escape
885
00:41:57,510 --> 00:42:00,160
unless the bearded man acquires an official license
886
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:01,890
for his facial hair.
887
00:42:01,890 --> 00:42:05,550
Peter wants to usher in a new era of progress and growth
888
00:42:05,550 --> 00:42:07,410
in his back order empire.
889
00:42:07,410 --> 00:42:08,940
He hopes to create a society
890
00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:11,100
with Western European standards.
891
00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:12,840
He restructures the government,
892
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,600
initiates social reforms,
893
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,830
promotes education and science.
894
00:42:16,830 --> 00:42:20,200
Everything he has seen and learned in the west,
895
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,393
he now wants to apply to his own country.
896
00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:34,220
Russia also moves closer to Europe
897
00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:35,570
in geographical terms,
898
00:42:35,570 --> 00:42:38,270
or at least the Russian capital does.
899
00:42:38,270 --> 00:42:40,290
The czar insists on a capital city
900
00:42:40,290 --> 00:42:42,780
with a port and access to the sea.
901
00:42:42,780 --> 00:42:46,220
So he turns his back on the traditional capital of Moscow
902
00:42:46,220 --> 00:42:47,760
and commissions the construction
903
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,130
of Saint Petersburg,
904
00:42:49,130 --> 00:42:51,240
his window to Europe.
905
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:52,100
You'd never know it
906
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:55,060
by looking at Europe's fourth largest city today,
907
00:42:55,060 --> 00:42:58,130
but Saint Petersburg got off to a difficult start.
908
00:42:58,130 --> 00:43:00,310
The construction site was a swamp
909
00:43:00,310 --> 00:43:02,840
and there wasn't enough stone for building.
910
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,750
Peter received hands on support
911
00:43:04,750 --> 00:43:07,420
form Italy, Germany, Holland and France.
912
00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:09,660
Italians, Germans and Dutchmen
913
00:43:09,660 --> 00:43:10,970
entered Russian service
914
00:43:11,932 --> 00:43:14,930
and gave the city its characteristically European face.
915
00:43:14,930 --> 00:43:17,073
We can still admire their work today.
916
00:43:25,900 --> 00:43:27,950
Peter the Great encouraged his people
917
00:43:27,950 --> 00:43:29,960
to look to the west.
918
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,300
There was something theatrical
919
00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:33,170
about the way he forced his Russians
920
00:43:33,170 --> 00:43:36,410
to emulate the fashions and customs of Western Europe.
921
00:43:36,410 --> 00:43:38,950
The objective was a comprehensive transformation
922
00:43:38,950 --> 00:43:39,783
of Russian life,
923
00:43:39,783 --> 00:43:41,530
at least among the upper classes.
924
00:43:41,530 --> 00:43:44,490
Wealthy Russians imported every product imaginable
925
00:43:44,490 --> 00:43:45,800
and along with those goods,
926
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,940
came Western European culture and manners.
927
00:43:48,940 --> 00:43:52,480
German merchants arrived as did Dutch and British engineers,
928
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,820
Italian architects
929
00:43:53,820 --> 00:43:56,120
and French musicians and theater companies.
930
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,940
They all blended together
931
00:43:57,940 --> 00:44:00,700
in typical European fashion.
932
00:44:00,700 --> 00:44:04,180
But this demand delivered from above as it were
933
00:44:04,180 --> 00:44:06,810
that they should align themselves with the West
934
00:44:06,810 --> 00:44:08,297
divided the Russians.
935
00:44:08,297 --> 00:44:11,340
"We have two father lands, Russia and Europe,"
936
00:44:11,340 --> 00:44:12,640
wrote Dostoevsky
937
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,290
who also relocated to Saint Petersburg.
938
00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:18,600
On one side, was the enlightened sophisticated west
939
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,140
with its promise, at least of progress.
940
00:44:21,140 --> 00:44:23,070
On the other, (speaking in foreign language),
941
00:44:23,070 --> 00:44:25,470
a little backwards perhaps in some respects,
942
00:44:25,470 --> 00:44:27,400
but homely, familiar
943
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,070
and in tune with the spirit of the people.
944
00:44:30,070 --> 00:44:31,900
A love/hate relationship arose
945
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:33,580
between Russians and the West,
946
00:44:33,580 --> 00:44:36,230
a mixture of attraction and distrust
947
00:44:36,230 --> 00:44:38,342
that lingers to this day.
948
00:44:38,342 --> 00:44:41,092
(dramatic music)
949
00:44:43,260 --> 00:44:46,840
Russia's autocratic systems also linger today.
950
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,023
First, came the rule of the czars.
951
00:44:50,551 --> 00:44:54,960
Then the October Revolution of 1917
952
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:56,503
ultimately put an end to that.
953
00:44:57,710 --> 00:44:59,723
And then, came communism.
954
00:45:06,150 --> 00:45:08,350
With unimaginable brutality,
955
00:45:08,350 --> 00:45:12,670
Joseph Stalin implements a dictatorship of the proletariat
956
00:45:12,670 --> 00:45:14,210
and even under Leonid Brezhnev,
957
00:45:14,210 --> 00:45:15,680
the party still determines
958
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,833
what people can read or listen to.
959
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:24,920
At the same time, in Western Europe, the 1960s,
960
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,737
mainstream popular entertainment
961
00:45:26,737 --> 00:45:29,490
enters a new phase of expansion.
962
00:45:29,490 --> 00:45:32,130
England has been a pop culture powerhouse
963
00:45:32,130 --> 00:45:33,590
since the 16th century
964
00:45:33,590 --> 00:45:36,503
and the days of William Shakespeare's successful plays.
965
00:45:40,380 --> 00:45:42,610
Four young men form Liverpool
966
00:45:42,610 --> 00:45:46,423
also follow in that Shakespearean tradition, the Beatles.
967
00:45:49,610 --> 00:45:54,360
The Fab Four have sold more than one billion records
968
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,560
making them the most successful musicians
969
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,033
in European history.
970
00:46:01,230 --> 00:46:03,620
When the Beatles came to Australia for the first time,
971
00:46:03,620 --> 00:46:05,220
to my hometown of Sydney,
972
00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:06,300
I was four years old
973
00:46:06,300 --> 00:46:08,710
I wasn't really aware of it at the time of course
974
00:46:08,710 --> 00:46:10,740
but the sound and style of the Beatles
975
00:46:10,740 --> 00:46:12,890
left their mark on my generation.
976
00:46:12,890 --> 00:46:14,300
Only later did I become aware
977
00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:16,030
of the Rolling Stones.
978
00:46:16,030 --> 00:46:17,470
These were the two poles
979
00:46:17,470 --> 00:46:20,340
between which pop music evolved in the 60s.
980
00:46:20,340 --> 00:46:21,960
On the one side, the Beatles,
981
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,700
cheerful, nicely dressed, well behaved.
982
00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:26,500
On the other, the Stones,
983
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:30,209
wild, unpredictable and darkly pessimistic.
984
00:46:30,209 --> 00:46:31,960
♪ Love, love, love ♪
985
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,379
versus
986
00:46:33,379 --> 00:46:36,879
♪ I can't no satisfaction ♪
987
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,940
On the 26th of June, 1966,
988
00:46:50,940 --> 00:46:53,970
the Beatles come to Hamburg on their Blitz Tour
989
00:46:53,970 --> 00:46:56,413
and the fans go wild with excitement.
990
00:46:57,710 --> 00:46:59,100
This event cemented fan culture
991
00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:02,090
as an integral part of European society.
992
00:47:02,090 --> 00:47:03,780
The concert is seated
993
00:47:03,780 --> 00:47:06,540
and an effort is made to maintain decorum
994
00:47:06,540 --> 00:47:10,333
but it isn't long before everyone goes crazy.
995
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,590
The band and the audience
996
00:47:13,590 --> 00:47:15,593
have trouble even hearing the music.
997
00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:34,200
150 years before the Beatles,
998
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,800
another kind of musical revolution sweeps across Europe
999
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,560
and this time it starts in Austria and Germany.
1000
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,680
Politically speaking, early 19th century Vienna
1001
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,500
is rather conservative.
1002
00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:49,940
But musically, it's in the midst of a revolution.
1003
00:47:49,940 --> 00:47:52,890
While the delegates at the congress of Vienna in 1815
1004
00:47:52,890 --> 00:47:55,800
dance the same waltzes over and over,
1005
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,743
Beethoven begins work on his ninth and final symphony.
1006
00:48:02,348 --> 00:48:04,610
Ludwig Van Beethoven, a native of Bonn,
1007
00:48:04,610 --> 00:48:08,250
finds patrons in Vienna who finance his compositions
1008
00:48:08,250 --> 00:48:09,293
and his livelihood.
1009
00:48:16,820 --> 00:48:18,800
This monument in Vienna
1010
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,180
portrays Beethoven as a sort of demigod.
1011
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:25,373
The angels symbolize his nine symphonies.
1012
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:27,940
Just as Renaissance Florence
1013
00:48:28,791 --> 00:48:30,650
had brought forth painters and sculptors,
1014
00:48:30,650 --> 00:48:33,770
Vienna became an incubator of musical works
1015
00:48:34,751 --> 00:48:35,584
of transcendent value.
1016
00:48:36,459 --> 00:48:39,292
(classical music)
1017
00:48:41,962 --> 00:48:43,679
The fact that Beethoven is able to finish
1018
00:48:43,679 --> 00:48:46,995
what would become his most famous work, his ninth symphony,
1019
00:48:46,995 --> 00:48:49,143
after nearly a decade, is a minor miracle.
1020
00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:52,913
By this point, Beethoven is almost completely deaf.
1021
00:48:55,230 --> 00:48:57,100
He can hardly have imagined
1022
00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:00,030
the extraordinary resonance that his works would have
1023
00:49:01,170 --> 00:49:02,003
in today's Europe.
1024
00:49:06,579 --> 00:49:10,412
(singing in foreign language)
1025
00:49:12,603 --> 00:49:13,590
The Berlin Refugee Choir
1026
00:49:13,590 --> 00:49:16,880
where refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq
1027
00:49:17,907 --> 00:49:19,797
sing together with Germans
1028
00:49:19,797 --> 00:49:22,063
have made Beethoven's Ode to Joy their anthem.
1029
00:49:23,522 --> 00:49:27,355
(singing in foreign language)
1030
00:49:50,347 --> 00:49:53,030
Since 1985, Beethoven's Ode to Joy
1031
00:49:53,898 --> 00:49:56,060
has been the official anthem of the European Union.
1032
00:49:56,060 --> 00:49:58,013
On Christmas Day, 1989,
1033
00:49:58,990 --> 00:50:00,510
a month after the fall of the Berlin wall,
1034
00:50:00,510 --> 00:50:02,890
Beethoven's ninth symphony was performed
1035
00:50:02,890 --> 00:50:05,790
in the Concert House on the Damenbart
1036
00:50:05,790 --> 00:50:08,240
under the direction of Leonard Bernstein
1037
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:11,760
but with a slight change to the wording of the final chorus
1038
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,580
which now opened not with the word joy
1039
00:50:14,580 --> 00:50:18,430
but with freedom, beautiful spark of the gods.
1040
00:50:18,430 --> 00:50:21,727
It was a turning point in the history of Europe.
1041
00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:23,420
And many of those who are singing here tonight
1042
00:50:23,420 --> 00:50:25,240
have better reason than most
1043
00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:27,250
to know the value of freedom.
1044
00:50:27,250 --> 00:50:29,110
That's why they came to Europe,
1045
00:50:29,110 --> 00:50:31,343
where freedom is a basic right.
1046
00:50:34,055 --> 00:50:36,462
The European anthem is sung around the world
1047
00:50:36,462 --> 00:50:37,295
in its original language
1048
00:50:37,295 --> 00:50:40,440
in Africa, South America, and Japan.
1049
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,252
This extraordinary piece of music
1050
00:50:43,252 --> 00:50:46,330
is the soundtrack to the world's vision of Europe today
1051
00:50:46,330 --> 00:50:48,770
and today it's more important than ever
1052
00:50:48,770 --> 00:50:52,480
that Europe unites and recognizing and acting upon
1053
00:50:53,578 --> 00:50:55,313
its shared responsibilities to the world.
1054
00:50:56,717 --> 00:51:01,300
("Ode to Joy" by Ludwig Van Beethoven)
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