Let's Find Out - 300 Year-Old Books & Maps (Astronomy, History, Myths) | ASMR unboxing, soft-spoken

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

Let's find out what 300-year-old books and maps look, feel and sound like. See the whole list of book names and the year they were published in the timestamps below or in-video to jump right to one's that pique your interest most if you, understandably, can't wait four hours. Most of these have been sitting unopened for over a year, so I was excited to open them up. Enjoy. Check out my space-themed clothes and such at https://www.letsfindoutasmr.com if you're interested in supporting the channel. A continual thank you to all my Patreon and Paypal donators. Your support really means so much. -Rich timestamps: 0:00 intro: preview, date, Ernie 1:56 Astronomy Made Simple (1963) 6:59 The Uncanny X-Men comic (1986) 12:27 L'Histoire Universelle (1738) 17:23 Fables of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1803) 39:38 The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung 46:01 History of Christianity by Edward Gibbon (1887) 59:18 The Connection of Science and Philosophy with Religion by Thomas Dick (1834) 1:30:00 The History of England by David Hume (1811) 1:45:06 Orbs of Heaven by O. M. Mitchell (1865) 2:14:21 50 Philosophy Classics 2:17:42 An History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol. 3 (1776) 2:35:44 Batman Comics (1996) 2:41:24 Orbs of Heaven (newer edition) 2:47:04 Frontiers of Astronomy (1955) 2:52:08 An Introduction to Astronomy: Yale Textbook (1846) 3:00:22 Pictorial History of Greece (1839) 3:16:01 The World's Great Thinkers (Box Set) 3:27:30 Rollin's Ancient History (1819) 3:47:46 The History of Astronomy (1767) 4:07:07 Penny Magazine: Babbage Article (1832) 4:13:53 Meme Analysis's Aeonic Comics (2021) 4:20:07 Map of Mediterranean/Near East (1723) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►If you'd like to show support for the channel: ▸Patreon (monthly donations) ........ https://www.patreon.com/LetsFindOutASMR ▸PayPal (one-time donation)......... https://www.paypal.me/LetsFindOutASMR ......... [e-mail] ▸Or if you shop on Amazon, using this link will support the channel at no extra cost to you: https://amzn.to/2LnNXd6 ▸Or see my Amazon Wishlist if you'd like to purchase a gift for the channel: http://a.co/9vUJ8eF ▸📪 If you'd like to mail me something: Let's Find Out ASMR (Rich) P.O. Box 1582 Palm City, FL 34991 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►My Contact Information: ▸📧 Instagram............ https://www.instagram.com/lets_find_out_ig/ ▸📧 Discord.................https://discord.com/invite/PyUfaN7 (* I'm not very active here yet)

Welcome back, guys. Thanks for joining us. By us, I mean me and Ernie, my dog down there, in case you hear any dog sounds. I should date in this video because it's fun and because one of the books will be 300 years old. It's a map, this one in particular. Next year, it's July 13th, 2022, and not only will this book be, or this map, one of them be 300 years old next year

I will have actually had all of these packages for over a year some of them a year and a half at this point waiting on my shelf to be unboxed for this exact moment so I hope you guys enjoy it and we have about probably 20 packages books maps there's a couple uh comic books and other things thrown in the mix and I think it'll be a fun little unboxing video so join me join us and let's see what we find out as you redo that let's find out what's in the box here we go number one and I covered up the addresses mine and the return but here I left the place of you know where it was sent from So, Green Bay, Wisconsin for this one.

A little slide razor here we're gonna use to open the packages. And I'm sorry about the, uh, the band-aid. I feel like I constantly have a little band-aid on in all my videos. But, um, it's just a minor cut. Kind of like these, just, uh, doing, from doing little house projects. Tis point a flesh wound. I'm sure you guys. And this is an astronomy,

Astronomy book, here we go. Only $1.95. I'm pretty sure I paid more than that. Astronomy made simple. Yeah, so this is definitely one of the newer books. I got this really because I wanted to I wanted to have an introductory astronomy book and 55, 1963, double-day-in-company history and it's really one. It's really one. what this is, yeah. So the intro introduction to astronomy and all its facets. It'll be a good reference book in the future. With every intention of finishing up my strong the planets video,

I'll at least be doing the inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. And I might, you know, if you guys enjoy it, I'll continue with the gas giants and ice giants. But, uh, yeah, part of me, Part of the appeal of these, you know, increasingly older books throughout this video where I do have an astronomy book. That's not the 300-year-old one, but it is, let's see. I got a list of my eBay transactions up here. Anyways, it's over 200 years old, so it's fascinating just to watch the change in knowledge that we've got in the past, you know, as the decades go by. and what we knew to 250 years ago versus 1950

versus now it's you know I said it's July 13th 2022 James Webb Space Telescope just they just released the first images of that amazing piece of technology billion dollars billions of dollars went into that and I guess decades of planning and development so that's something I definitely want to make a video on soon I'm sure I'm gonna lose count so I'm not gonna pretend to be able to keep up with that this one's from Winslow Arkansas Winslow Arkansas now a couple of me especially these thinner packages here are

Some are magazines, yeah, magazines, but also comics and items. But we're going to be getting into some very old books as well. So, because I, I'm not really aware of which one I'm opening and which one, you know, what order I'm opening them in. Didn't want you guys to think I was pulling a fast one on you. Four hour fast one. Slow as fast when I ever saw. Ah, here we go. So this is a comic. And I want to give a shout out to my friend Chicho.

Uh, I just like that guy. Um, he does a lot of, uh, Cheecho. That's C-H-Y-C-H-O. I know I shout him out a lot, I guess. But he's worth mentioning. He's the one who got me into, uh, I'm not even particularly into comic books, books but I used to have a few and um really just for nostalgia and for collecting them you know I don't know if I'll ever resell them but I thought it was cool that you know I see the value in these books and this one was a pretty old one yeah not not the

oldest thing going but but a nice little Wolverine comic from the uncanny X-Men, the advertisements. Of course, always interesting to look back on. So I guess they always kind of had those little M&Ms with, you know, Pixar-like eyes on them. This ads from 1985, Mars Bars. Mars Incorporated. I wonder if Mars still owns M&Ms. But yeah, anyways, Cheecho is the one who I enjoy watching.

watching his he does a lot of he's a very knowledgeable and a huge collector of comic books he does a lot of unboxing and even does comic book readings on his channel if you guys are interested in that i highly recommend checking him out all right so we'll go through that some other time i'm sure i did not see the i did not see the message that's given there that's kind of of sad but anyways I guess that's responsible it's good the messages out there that's really awkward though that's the first thing I've noticed it I do some maneuvering around of the packages so just sit tight and listen to Ernie Scratch while I do that okay yeah yeah I moved the packages to get them all in that one

shot they were kind of precariously positioned on the bed there got a bed behind Okay, alright, let's check this one out here. This was from Kansas City, Missouri. Missouri. This was one of the ones that I opened to just check the condition of. I just wanted to make sure it was doing all right, and it appears like it did. Let's check it out. This is real leather and trim really something to look at and And then to actually hold these books, it's a whole different ball of wax. Discourse su la history universal. I need to get the French whisper to interpret this for me. But that's millennia, so that's a thousand.

A. D means 500, so 1500 plus two centuries, 1700, plus 3,300, plus 3.000. decades 1738 1738 wow it's really something this one obviously I won't even be able to read it maybe I'll give it to French whisper he can do a video on it but see if it has any folios or images in it I don't see any yeah see I don't even really want to open the book because you can see it's increased the buying quite a few more books to look at an inbox so we'll go ahead and just set this one aside but uh our first first book from the 1700s this might be the the second oldest book man that's something

you know what i'll just leave that one right there we go the uk so this is another pretty old book i believe bookaddiction.co beautiful books it's not a bad addiction to have I guess you what else isn't too bad is this packaging here look at this look at that man skip this is pretty amazing was a fairy tales fables grim brothers but they're way too expensive so I settled for shawls let's hope it's comparable I had to cover up some private information there, but on the front they were kind enough to, I'm going to have to leave these guys a really good review if they were on eBay. No, I guess eight books, there it is.

Still, I have to go back because this is so well packaged, so nice. It said this was actually Francis Bacon. Fables of the Agents and philosophy and morality and so 146 pages, many black and white wood engravings, including the frontist piece of Francis Bacon. By H.R. Cook, leather covered boards with gilt lettering. I guess that's the word I was looking for. Talking about the guilt, gilding on the sides. front edges. It's slightly torn, some foxing on the preliminary pages, new addition with notes critical and explanatory by Dr. Shaw.

Very carefully here. Make sure we don't. The light just shines off that shiny leather. It's a little blemish or dark spot right there. These are the coolest things to hold and to collect. Though they're constantly increasing in price, but but some more thunder. You know, most of these were under $50.

Some you give for 20, 30, 40. Ernie's a little nervous. He hates thunder. He really gets to make sure. Actually, let me let me lay. He's sitting on the other side of the room. Let me go let him sit under my feet here so he feels a little more secure.

But yeah, I'd highly recommend you guys check. I'm sure some of these videos that I've done a couple of them have gotten real popular so Maybe it's increased the price of some of these books if you know it sends more people out looking me. It's a it's a very worthwhile It's really an investment Let's give it a look fables as to offer us. I guess I'll put this one back that says a hundred or I definitely only didn't pay a hundred for this morality in civil policy illustrated and explained by Francis Bacon was there's Roger Bacon who I guess lived in the 1300s I know Francis Bacon was a couple hundred years later I'm maybe they were related but he was one of the

first people to you know like many geniuses of ages more than a hundred years ago he was a like a polymath he was an expert in multiple disciplines and domains so I know he was a scientist and early he was one of the earliest scientists He was a philosopher as told in this book. He was a scholar of ancient texts like many people. He probably knew multiple languages, probably even knew ancient Latin. Here's a picture of him right here. Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor of England.

And I know he, to say not the least of his, undertakings was a very as we just read there Lord High Chancellor of England he was a very accomplished politician in was the 1500s maybe right here is from 18 o and I really wanted to get a book about mythology and fables listen to this writing I guess with notes critical and explanatory by Dr. Shaw, so I guess maybe it's a translation by Francis Bacon. He was, Bacon was, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England. By J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for M. Jones, Pater Noster Row.

Preface here says the present production appears like a rich cabinet. cabinet of antiques opened and set in view. The happy talent which the author in his physical works employs to interpret nature is here employed to interpret the dark oracles of men. To say the truth, he seems to have used the like artifice in both, proceeding according to the inductive method delivered in the second part of the Novum organum, which, without which of or something of the kind, it would not be easy to derive such depths of knowledge from the enigmas, or dark parables of antiquity.

For example, he first calls out his fable with choice judgment, choice and judgment, and then trims or prunes it, rejecting what is superfluous or spurious. Next, it turns and views it in different lives. and at length finds out the key for deciphering it in the most natural and advantageous manner and thus having got the right end of the thread the interpretation follows as it were spontaneously though the whole still remains to be coolly sate upon and revised in order to discover if the imagination has not been too busy in working off the interpretation or if no levity miss becoming the ancient sages has encrept in and as the author certainly bestowed this or much greater diligence and application in trimming these ancient fables fitting them with suitable interpretations it seems but a piece of justice in the reader that he be not overhasty to pronounce upon the performance. This is mentioned, this is mentioned the rather,

because some have thought that the author here employed his imagination more than his judgment. But the appeal from men's first thoughts to their second is the privilege of every careful writer. One's first thoughts to their second, It's the privilege of every careful writer. Yeah, it's, uh, I love that they, you know, approach this with caution. And they are approaching as transmitted wisdom and not just children's, you know, inconsequential,

uh, superficial literature. It's pretty awesome. Critique upon the mythology of the ancients. the earliest antiquity lies buried in silence in oblivion accepting the remains we have of it in sacred writ and how's that for an opening line that is amazing love love to do a video on this in the future so if you guys want to look in further into shan's fables in the future just let me know And that goes for any of these books, with the exception of this one in French, which I will gladly ship over to the French Whisperer.

If he'd like to do a video on it. Because we have some religion, some history, mythology, like we have here. And we also have science and astronomy and some philosophy as well. So hopefully, ideally I'll be able to make... videos on many of these books actually so yeah and so many more ways than one they are an investment they're well worth the cost of you know 30 40 50 even $100 sometimes I mean it's it's so amazing to hold something 200 and as we'll see you know beyond that 300 years old just see you know

not only are the author's words preserved in the text for all time as long as it exists but the um you know the actual physical book itself carries so much mystery how many hands has this been in long dead hands and how many more hands will it see in the future realize the there's engravings in it so we can check those out real quick and this book seems to be small enough where we won't ruin the binding if we um whether that happens over time or that half the fable of I'm sure it would be extremely uh vulture while he's chained to a cliff and then reborn or revive like wolverine true of agony the fable of Prometheus explained of an overruling providence and of human nature.

The ancients relate that man was the work of Prometheus. The fable of Memnon, burnt alive, unless that's part of the fable, I've never read that one. Fable of Cyclops Death. Quite a few more books to get through, so let's dive into the next one. Here we go. this one's a little bit louder it's synchronous but it's at least relevant or

serendipitous I guess that the that the next book I would have pulled out was Carl Jung's the basic writings of Carl Gustav Young in this I just I spread myself so thin trying to try to learn about so many different topics that I find well I just I'm an amateur I'm so ignorant I I like trying to start with primers and overviews and summaries and then you know from there I'll discover what I might want to look further into and explore you know more so Carl Jung is definitely someone who is becoming increasingly interesting for his

well just really what I said about the fables there's so much wisdom backed into these stories that can be broken down and dove into on so many layers at an intellectual level

a moral level a societal level and then yet at the same time they're sophisticated enough to be able to have all the that information packed into them yet be easily you know very memorable easily transmissible memetic in that sense this this is the really just the most what this particular editor Violet de laslo information he will

was a prolific writer so I bought one or two of his books and tried to read them they seem Digestible at first until you really start to think about them and then you realize there's so many layers there's so much he's he's packing into his own books and he has such a wealth of knowledge of history and myth and religion and philosophy in science too really um that I realized I need I need uh I need to narrow my my uh attention I guess I needed some some help guiding myself through this guy's works so that's what this was but um I'm interested in him just because I really want to know you know what wisdom we have out there. It's cool I'm a fan of Jack Johnson, the musician, and I found out that he

Well, he reads a lot, but Joseph Campbell one of Young's students or at least to someone who got a lot of his ideas and inspiration from Carl Young Was someone Jack Johnson got a lot of inspiration from and I really found a lot of depth in in um in jack johnson's lyrics he's not very shallow at all he's very uh he's just very articulate and very he's easy to listen to in in that interesting way again where you can listen to it as like a child could listen to his songs because they're not abrasive they're very family friendly yet they pack a lot of wisdom in them and he he he's timeless his music is timeless because it has a lot of reverence for specifically he's from

Hawaii so the Hawaiian culture and the the wisdom that comes along with that but also Western culture more more broadly so it's interesting little connections there he he got a lot of inspiration from a Joseph Campbell interpreted mythology so this next book here central Florida it's near Orlando there so I didn't have to travel too far to make it my way access it through the back here use this little guy whole packaging here and again I don't remember what any of these packages contain specifically I have a general idea of which you know which book I've had coming but honestly it's been over a year at this point so some I

honestly forgot but if I bought them they must have been worthwhile that's all I can hope nicely packaged book this one's this one's in cell of fame but still nicely wrapped up nice and neat it's nice to see this might be the history of Christianity and if I recall it look it up here might be able to see what year yeah here we go okay so yeah Edward given I believe was the guy who wrote the decline in fall of the Roman Empire yes is another thing I'm very interested in is the you know this is the until recently central role of Christianity in Western culture means that again many

works of literature. These are myths that are very deep and rich and meaning and wisdom. And I personally I would like to know more about them. In the history of Christianity itself tells me more about well where how this how society has shaped itself as it's been informed and as it's interpreted and yeah, been informed by Christianity. This really is so cool to be able to look at these old old books. I mean this one isn't even, you know, 150 years old. Let's see. Maybe I could do a video with French whisper.

French words and praises that are commonly used in correspondence. Interesting. Really old book video. I had you guys help me decipher. me decipher what these messages on here were. See if I can figure it out myself. James S. McKinley. It's harder to tell on camera, actually. I can't tell what's Chasby. February 3rd, 1889.

I want to docks him, but I guess, I guess he probably wouldn't mind. 137 East Third Street. That's such beautiful. This is USA. I can't really read. What else? that says. Looks like the pages are coming out a little bit here. Oh, there we go. I guess they repeated it. One did the math of how old the book was in 1915 right before World War I. Right there. So we do the math from there. It's a hundred another hundred and seven years. So

133 is it? 133 years old. This is a history of Edward Gibbon. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the same guy who wrote the rise and fall. Yeah, the history and decline. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. In a vindication, let's see, comprising all that relates to that. history of Christianity comprising all that relates to the progress of the Christian religion

in the history and decline, history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, in a vindication of some passages in the 15th and 16th chapters. Edward Given Esquire with a life of the author, preface and notes by the editor, including various, Varyum notes by Guseau Wink Millman and English Churchman just an anonymous random English churchman and other scholars New York Peter Eccler Fulton Street really something so I guess 1887 if that's the year that this was printed then It's 130, 135 years old.

7. Yeah, this is honestly a book I want to read. I don't know if I will, because it's so old. But, again, this is amazing to have this history in my hands right here. I mean, it's just so beautiful. And it's doubly cool because it's a historically important book. It's old enough to be. history now and it's about history.

The wolf of Lewis and Remus, the founders of Rome were the sons of Ria Sylvia and Mars. Sylvia was the daughter of Numitor and the Vestal Virgin. For violating her vows of chastity she and her twin offspring were condemned to be drowned in the tiber. The cradle in which the children were exposed

were exposed being stranded, they were found and suckled by a she-wolf which carried them to her den where they were ultimately discovered by Faustilus Faustilus

the king the king's shepherd and I've never read I know more about books than the books I've read but the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire is a like a pivotal historical series that is you know I'm sure it's been preceded or or you know

anteceded and replaced many years ago as a work of you know eminent scholarship but it in its day and for a long time after I know it was a you know the go-to book to um Really something to have this. Boston, Massachusetts. Maybe I'll just try to cut along the tape here Like they looks like they wrapped it in newspaper luckily for me. It's getting a little too close with the razor there Maybe I'll go ahead and switch to the scissors next time. Or right now. Let's try out in a space up here. The leather leather on this binding here is way more worn out than the other two books or the other three no I guess too because this doesn't look like it's real leather Ernie what's the matter buddy what's the matter big guy

you want to take a break do you want to go outside of course you do I'm gonna take Ernie outside we are back from outside in fact it's the next day we took a nice long break and Ernie's refreshed and relaxed peacefully sleeping on the floor again. So let's find out what's, uh, what this book is. It's probably upside down, isn't it? The thing I just realized is that I wasn't telling you guys the price I paid for these books. And, uh, because I got my eBay account up.

If I got it on eBay, I'll try to look it up and, uh, just let you guys know. because most of these they were pretty reasonably priced you could see here this one has a ton of splotching and all that in fact the whole cover got so much hate for touching put my grubby fingers all over these books but I don't know it's part of the experience I guess get touching the books not getting the hate but I'll take the good and the bad I guess So 1898. Look at this writing right here. I'm butchering this this name Leicester. Leicester. Public Library, book D 55, class two of five. Bachel dev. 1898.

1898. Let's see what this book even is. I'm not really sure, honestly. Let's check it out. Alright, so this is the Christian philosopher Christian philosopher of science Or I'm sorry, or see or It's got an embossed stamp Stamped into this title page here Says or The connection of science and philosophy with religion

Which I remember it now. It's all coming back to me I remember how intrigued I was by that title and this just popped I'm gonna get it now I'm really gonna get it now so in this pages and I'm sure I guess I'm not gonna flip through a lot of these a lot of this book because a string or whatnot holding the pages together is coming off I guess once the front cover comes off it kind of unravels everything else. Just look at this book. That's the old library catalog, I guess, cataloging. Dewey decimal system, but I know Dewey, the philosopher who invented it,

wasn't writing until the late 1800s, so maybe half a century after this. So I don't know what catalog that would be. It's either 215 or 2 out of 2.5. D-55. Anyways, this, let's put this at 30. Those of you who've watched my other video about going through the book, the geography of

the heavens. This guy wrote the foreword to that book. Thomas Dick. Clearly a man of science. A variety of literary and scientific communications in Nicholas Nicholson's

philosophical journal The Annals of Philosophy Sorry I'm over here acting like a child again guys Can't wait till we get to draw uranus That's gonna be fun I'll leave Any jokes that might arise out of

That little section right there For you guys in the comment section The Annals of Dick Okay I can't help myself So this was Hartford 1834 was it published by Robinson and Pratt. And look at this so yeah this page just came off. Someone would have I'm guessing someone would have carved this carved this image out of wood here so and just remember it's it's amazing to

think about 1834 almost 200 years ago. I don't think Neptune being the furthest of the gas giants, the furthest of the two ice giants, last planet before Pluto, wasn't yet discovered. I think it was in the 1850s, wasn't. But Herschel was a famous astronomer in the 1800s, early 1800s, late 17,

and Uranus was named after Herschel, so at that time it was still named after him because he was the one who initially discovered Uranus, so tongue is much I see Herschel. It doesn't quite have the same. So he's analyzing again the connection of science and philosophy with religion, the Christian philosopher. And it's interesting to think there's still a bunch of fair amount of Christians and other people adherence to other religions who practice science and the more I learn about it the more I realize you know the the moral wisdom the ethical knowledge that comes with religion isn't necessarily incompatible with the factual truth about the

the nature of matter and energy that science reveals. So it's always interesting to, especially for the historical aspect, but even for the ongoing debate in modern times. You know, here's someone's opinion on how they are trying to reconcile religious texts with the, continual discoveries of science and the continual insights you know given by philosophy so this book is you know not just breaking down astronomy it's it's uh wider than just an astronomical text it's also trying to analyze the um the optical nerves the eyeball reflects off I think that's actually a really cool that's like that's something I would love to get framed

that's really cool generally about you know light Venus in Mercury perhaps they have different crescents at different times of the year we can be a little more gentle with it figures in the upper part of the plate marked one two three four etc. represent the planets Herschel, Saturn, Jupiter, and Earth and the moon and the relative sizes and proportions. Yeah. So then it's pretty accurate actually. So that's interesting. That's it's amazing really actually that they know 200 years ago purely based on observation. They had no electronics, no way of you know measuring from satellites and

the high-tech telescopes getting any sort of high-tech optics is purely from visual observation and calculations of the gravity and the size and the distance

the light it's it's you know their motions it's amazing that they'd be able to figure out the relative of size, a parallax, you know, we've talked about. The telescopic views of the belts and rings of Saturn in the belts of Jupiter, meaning the bands. The two figures immediately below marked 5 and 6, 5 and 6 were intended to illustrate the description

given of the eye on pages 88 through 104. Front view of the human eye figure 6 represents a section of it. exhibiting the three coats and the three humors of which it is composed figure seven down here is a rude view like the use of that word of the appearance it's always interesting how words change person it didn't mean you were average you know not very smart I believe at least so figure seven represents a rude view of the appearance which the rings and of Saturn will exhibit in certain cases as be held from a point 20 or 30 degrees north from his equator to see pages pages 187 and 88 in the

shade from the upper part of the ring so it's a view of the rings and moons of Saturn from the perspective of someone standing on Saturn that they imagine of course that's beautiful the shade on the upper part of the rings represents the shadow of the body of Saturn itself as it appears in the rings about midnight so interesting to think about how bright the sky would be if earth had comparable rings like Saturn does they would be this just perpetual glowing and how that would of course change the even though I guess they don't think I was gonna say how it changed the course of evolution but I think they they think that the rings probably shift you know and maybe fluctuate in and maybe go away and vanish and dissipate I believe I've heard that they whether or not they dissipate in the cycles and they come and go I don't know if that's true but I believe I've heard that they've heard that they They only think they might be a few hundred thousand years old, which on evolutionary timescales, you know, isn't really all that.

So maybe it wouldn't have affected the circadian rhythms, you know, making the night sky brighter. But the thing is for sure, it would be very beautiful. So this book, let me just, Christian philosopher. So I paid $34 for this book, bought it on May 9th, 2021. In this, uh, probably, you know, about a reasonable price because it's falling apart. It's very splotched, so it's not in the best condition. But the rest of the book, other than the cover in the first few pages, is still pretty, uh, still pretty, pretty intact. So, $34, not too bad for, you know, really just for that beautiful plate, that picture in the front.

I can't really open it, so feel bad. Every time I turn the page, it's trying to come undone from this binding right here, so we're not going to mess with it. That's really cool to think that that's like 200-year-old thread. Flip through real quick and see if we could see, uh, Another picture, do it pipes, about water pipes. Not too many more pictures, it looks like. There'd be a lot, a lot more pictures.

Not really the only other diagram. So now we got one very, very stripped down diagram right here. We're talking about orbits. And that's about all I see right there. Another stamp of the library. Like this They have the actual library card still in the back yet

See how many times it's been checked out Not once, either that or they got checked out It never returned I don't know It's pretty amazing to think that someone Of course, you know someone wrote and There a lot of people were involved in the manufacture of The actual book

Itself, but Just the handwriting Seeing the personal handwriting of someone that lived over 200 years ago This book was in 1834 at least 120 years ago. I think I saw 1898. It might have been around the time so that this was written. Maybe he kept two weeks I find two books can be had at a time and can be obtained by card only and a fine of two cents, two cents.

For each library day must be paid on each book kept over time, and no books can be had while fines are unpaid. The person to whom a book is charged will be held responsible for its loss or injury. Readers are expected to report mutilations or defacements found in any book. The intentional injury of books or other property of a public library is by statute punishable by a fine or imprisonment. I think that's

about it for that book right there. Pop the cover back. There's a piece of paper laid down to protect the book, the cover if this stuff was giving off any sort of film or something. Okay, all right, moving on to the next. package here. Next one is from Rockford, Illinois. Cissors might be the best plan of attack here. The thing about all these, uh, all these sellers, they all them wrap the books really nicely.

So I'm gonna have to go back and definitely make a point to leave them all positive reviews. And again, I'm sorry about the Band-Aid guys. I know it probably looks weird, but I figured it more pleasing look at than a little boo-boo. A little plumbing repair job I had to do last minute a couple days ago and scrape a little bark off the tree while I was cutting a pipe. Here we go. Let's find out what book this is. This one doesn't look in great condition either. You can already see it's coming off. See if we can read it. History of England. Guild on it.

You could see at the bottom there. If this was part of a, you know, a series. It's just one bottom. It'd have mostly come off right here. There's an L looks like. Let's see what it says in here. Victor Gardner Hills. Victor Gardner Hills family.

I don't know, you guys tell me what that says. Thomas Fair, Fairchild. History of England. From the invasion of Julia Caesar into the Revolution of 1688. By David Hume. That's why I wanted this book. Written in 1811.

David Hume, I have not. not read David Hume, but he's one of the most well-known philosophers, especially that came out of England, and I just, I thought it was amazing to have an actual book written by him from a time published when he was still alive. I thought that was just so cool, so cool. So it is part of a volume, and this was only volume four,

history of England let's see 20 dollars 20 dollars and 50 cents for this one so David Hume was a century English philosopher I was recently I've never read him but I've read about him and can I say anything intelligent about him no I don't think I can. I don't think I can't. He was trying to prioritize social morality and responsibility over the overly rationalizing thoughts. I think I read that he he wrote as an example that you could you could wish for the destruction of the entire world rationally in opposition to merely getting a paper cut saying that if you were about to if you are omnipotent and you are purely logical

and rational if you were about to get a paper cut then you could wish for the destruction the ceasing of all existence to avoid feeling the pain you know even however minor that that would bring so he anyways he was I think his point there was that something can be purely rational and not be in everyone's best interest even your own in that case because what would we be if we didn't have other people to share our joy with as well as support from when we were suffering and feeling sorrow. But anyways, he was a, I bought this book because he was a great philosopher and I really

just wanted to have a bit of, really just have a bit of history, honestly. And it's a fact of history that that so many great thinkers, like I said, were religious, or, you know, like Newton, I think is the interesting, most interesting example to point to because he's considered the father of science, modern science almost, and he was extremely religious. He interpreted the, he translated the Bible practiced alchemy he was into mysticism as well as hard science and he was guided by metaphysical principles and you know an adventure for understanding the world from multiple perspectives at once and

it's pretty interesting that he could led to so many discoveries that so many people use to support atheistic sentiments, I guess. Contents, here we have the contents. Volume 4, Henry the 7th, Henry 8th, a Christian, but no doubt he would have been, according to Nietzsche, he would have been trying to justify his Christian morals unconsciously. through his philosophy with Scotland victory at Solway death of James the Fifth treaty with Scotland this is a history written by someone 200 years ago so this was history up until the year you know 1800 roughly go ahead and put this book

down now because Marty starting to get it's rubbing off on my fingers which again I know guys I know sorry you have someone told me that the oils in latex or even cloth isn't good either so I don't know what to think but the book is worth more than $20 it's still only $20 so I don't know what to think about it but let's move on to the next package now looks like my band-a-dose just fell off so there you go that's what I was hiding the whole time little paper cut so you know my stance towards the world I guess all right so this is from little Park I don't know what that is Illinois you know I didn't ship this let's see what I

ordered from Elmwood Park over here it's definitely not that so I guess they We're just resourceful with the packaging. No big deal there. For a minute, I literally thought it was a blue book. That is just painter's tape. Okay. I love it when there's more... more than one layer.

4-2. I think this is three layers at least so far. Let's see if we can get four out of it. Where's the easiest point of entry? I don't know. Let's see. It's so funny how I... We have like, you know, six old...

old, yeah, six old books in a row now and, uh, I started off with for some reason. Hey, I guess I said from the outset, I didn't want to unbox the oldest one first and maybe that's watch it be the last now. That's going to be funny. Written out, them off to people who, to people who appreciate them in any event. Thank you again. hope you enjoy orbs. So this is Orbs of the Heavens. I'm happy about this one.

Oh man, what? Look at this. All right, so Dear Richard, I thought that was just like a funny way of saying, like, these books are off to the people who buy them. It's a whole note, though. Dear Richard, thank you for buying orbs. My late father loved books.

When he passed in 19th century, By the way, I sort of became a custodian of his small collection, so I've been lugging them around for over 50 years Needless to say my kids have zero interest in becoming a keeper the keepers of the flame, so I'm hoping to sell them off to people who appreciate them In any event, thank you again. Glad I can't read that name because I didn't want to help you but I mean it was really sweet to you Paul so I really appreciate that and I'm highly doubtful if you'll ever see this anyway but if any of you know that gentleman tell him thank you and I will have to personally

reach out to him and thank him for that sweet letter even though it was that's I remember, this might be one that I got from, uh, okay. Here we go, May 10th, May 10th. Clearly around late last spring. I was having a book buying, uh, I was binging on some books. $25 for this one. Mitchell's outer space, science astronomy, Orbs of Heaven, 1853. I bought. Alright, so I bought this May of last year, 1853.

And unlike the other books, this one's spine is very much intact. It doesn't have the front page, front cover, I guess, but the spine is very much. If I recall, look at that. Speak of the Devil. Exactly the sentiment here is control over nature in its deepest secrets says trying to understand gravity what makes the planets move what force pulls on the planets and governs their motion says here was an object worthy of the highest ambition of the human mind no matter no matter what might be the nature of this force, whether it should reside in the sun or in the planet or in both, whether it should prove to be a property of matter or of the mere uniform manifestation of the omnipotent will.

The discovery of its law of action would give to the mind the power of penetrating the darkest recesses of nature. and rising to a knowledge of the profoundest secrets of the universe. Such is the nature of the investigation propounded to the powerful intellect of Newton. This eminent philosopher, justly regarded as the most extraordinary genius that ever lived. Look at this one. This one has tons of pictures of telescopic of a telescope. appearance of the planets. Jupiter and Saturn here are bone size to Venus from our vantage point. Mars and it's actually smaller than Mercury from where we stand on Earth. Hershal's section of the Milky Way. Page 188. Herschel's section of the Milky Way. Hmm. Okay. Jupiter and Saturn. page 172 of 1811 Proficial altar right there

It looks like that spherical dome looks like it's somewhere in the nearest Middle East This looks like a history Oh man look the picture of Galileo right there Let's give you the whole of you first and I'll zoom in on it This is like a little protective Thin thin protect the page from getting crossed printed by the ink on the opposite page. Lord Ross's telescope, which would have been

contemporary of this book, I guess. Whom is this book written? Yeah, this was sometime in the 1800s. Look how large that telescope is. Relative to that tiny guy right there. It was like a 50-foot long telescope. And even the structure, it's a... housed in is a huge undertaking. It's so impressive. The Orbs of Heaven or the Planetary

and Stiller Worlds. It looks like it's a little demonstration of explanation of what we currently knew at that time, 1865 as we can see here, with numerous illustrations. A history to a popular exposition of the great discoveries and theories of theories of Modern astronomy. So it's like a tour through the discoveries of astronomy up until the mid end of the Civil War in America at least. I don't know if it's the same guy, but Mitchell was someone named Mitchell might be the same guy given that he wrote a book on astronomy here. One of the First people, along with the philosopher Manuel Kant, who proposed of the existence of black holes, already taking the concept of gravity to its logical conclusion,

saying that, you know, what would happen if matter was more and more increasingly dense, densely packed into itself? How dense could a planetary body get? to get or star and if so um and at what density would it not be able to withstand the weight of its own gravity it's pretty interesting and that's how the first you know intimations of a black hole were developed lectures of i guess it was a it's probably a transcript of the series of lectures. Ancient and modern ideas

on the system of the world. List of illustrations Plato on page 46 Pyramids Man there's a lot of genes here snake right there, yellow snail contemplating the setting sun. That's beautiful.

Oh broad shoulders. The end showing the Caudian shepherds naming constellations in ancient times. See they're looking up. That didn't really translate too well into this book here. into this book here but maybe they did that on purpose because it is night time. Formatted the text to fit will fit around the image. This writing is really poetic. Let's listen to this. Here we pause.

We've closed the eleniation of the great problem whose discussion and solution lie before us. A problem whose solution has been in progress, 6,000 years. One which is furnished to man the opportunities of his loftiest triumphs, one which has taxed in every age the most vigorous efforts of human genius, a problem whose successive developments have demonstrated the immortality of mind, and whose sublime results have vindicated the wisdom and have declared the glory of God. You have listened to the enunciation. We now invite you to follow up. us in the demonstration. And may that almighty power which built the heavens give to me wisdom to reveal and to you power to grasp the truths and doctrines rested by mind from nature in its long

struggle of 60 centuries of toil. Emphasize that with a statue, a picture of a statue of Newton at Cambridge University. This is actually a book I would love to sit down, maybe with gloves and read. Lecture 1 is the exposition of the problem which the heavens present for solution. The discoveries of the primitive ages, theories for the explanation of the motions of heavenly bodies,

discovery of the great laws of motion and gravitation and then universal gravitation applied to the explanation of the phenomena of the solar system the stability of the planetary system discovery of new planets the cometary world comets scale on which the universe is built emotions and revolutions of fixed stars not every day you see a book end like that as seen through Lauren Ross's telescope.

If I happen to, I hope I don't skip over this in editing, but, uh, no, now I'm putting pressure on myself. It'd be cool to juxtapose some of these Constellation Lira, Pool Nebula. A lot of these might be the same ones from Burrits' Geography of the Heavens, Ubrahe's house. What a great book for $25. I encourage you guys to go out and find some books. like that. Find some books. Okay so so far we got one two three four five six old books. A book to help us decipher what they mean psychologically. Okay next up is what are we got next here. I thought I covered it up and it's just really faded. It is.

Montgomery, Illinois. Books from Illinois. Interesting, it turns out. Man, this was such a nice letter. That really was. I really liked that. So sweet-ed. His father died in 1968. I mean, could have been born in the 40s or in the early 1900s. Who knows? Let's dive into this one. Yeah, so I got a little carried away this series. I got a little infatuated by it. I liked the, um, I rented the 50 psychological, psychology classics from my library. And, uh, I thought this would be a great book as well to, uh, get my feet wet in some philosophy. So, contents list right here. David Hume inquiry concerning human understanding in 1748.

Wow, he was. He was an early 1700s, 18th century writer. I didn't realize he was that early. I thought he was the late. Here's a list of all the other books they got. Yeah, philosophy and psychology. I don't know, it just seems like such a useful thing to let someone curate what they find the most useful.

And then from there, it seems like a good jumping off point. So, well, that was a quick one. What do we get next? What do we get next? Alright. Here we go. I got a shiny package here, guys. Check it out.

From Bellevue, Washington. I think I opened this one up already. This might not be a surprise. What is this? Looks like it's in really good condition. This one looks like it's in really good shape. Look at that. You can say that's got very few bits removed from it.

Avoid that glare. I could see, that clearly creases from... Okay, so... An Aistery of Earth, an animated nature. I don't know what accent that was. This is like a history of geology and biology, I guess. I'm not really sure. So we got 2Cs, MDCC, 1700.

50, 76. This book was printed during the American Revolution. What amazing is that? Apparently printed for James Williams, whoever that is. And here, ruminating animals, wadger beds of the cow kind, the buffalo, the animals. It's a bunch of animals. You know, this is volume, whatever, so, volume three, so I saw. Volumes 1 and 2 might have traversed the earth. This is more about the animals. I thought a piece of the spine just came off on my hand. That's terrible.

That sucks. But I do have glue, so I bought some special book glue that specifically... And I got this book because it was written or published in 1776, printed. I thought it was interesting to see the, to hear about the perspective on animals back then. For instance, the buffalo, like we just saw. See if there's any pictures. Almost nearly to extinction in America. And, you know, back when this book was written, that probably wasn't even on the radar,

thinking that they would ever go extinct. there were so many buffalo roaming the continental US. Here we have the Polkad. Is that a weasel? A ferret? What this is? The civet? Any hellologists out there, tell me what the heck that thing is.

C-I-V-E-T. Looks like it's in some more tropical based on the leaves, the trees. Really interesting, so... Well, I just randomly said whoopi-gold. It's so interesting. Look at that face of the wall. Looks like a Picasso.

The one said, uh, if you haven't checked out that next door app, it's just a bunch of people saying they think they saw a fox. And I've been on there and that's kind of true. It's true enough to be funny. The sea-a-goo. The sea-a-gush? The sea-gush? Panther. What is this divine animal with that sunlight peeking through and shining down upon it?

The barabroosa. Bobarosa. There's a lot of extra vowels in there. I feel like don't belong. It's got hooves, so that's a hog of some sort. It's like really tall and skinny. Bibi, cabby eye. I like how they're all like standing on, like perched on pretty little plateaus.

These animals. names. One must be a nuisance on farms. It's standing next to a broken down fence. We have some little village in the background. Never heard of that. Their s's. Unless it was at the end of a word and then they would just make it a normal S. I don't understand. If it's at the beginning, it looks like an F. But if it's at the end, at the beginning or the middle, it looks like an F. And I'm sure there's some whole history behind that. It's been transplanted. to America and suffered to run wild among the woods it's often seen to to herd among a drove of peckeries but never to breed from them maybe those a

native type of hog in America they may therefore be considered as two distinct creatures the hog is the larger more useful animal the peckery is more feeble and local dog subsists man that's a mouthful if you're looking at Fuff Fiffs in most almost every climate the peckery is native the warmer regions and cannot subsist in ours without shelter and assistance it's more than probable however that we could easily we could readily propagate the breed of this quadruped and and that in two or three generations it might be familiarized to our climate. But as it is inferior to the hog in every respect,

so it would be needless to admit. Look at that even there, look at that exact. Domestic Whole, a new domestic whose services are better supplied in the old world. It's taken very literally by some people. Yeah, so a lot of these books probably going to be the last time I really truly open. them because stuff like that happens. Still pretty well intact though. It's very nice.

God, I just love these books. I absolutely adore these books. These things are so cool to touch and browse through. The next book. Our next book is from Southeast in Massachusetts Ben Sticker. This looks like a little kind of kind of comic book hall I got so it's an interesting little break in our routine here

this is from April 1994 the Dark Knight night quests Batman legends of the dark night Dennis O'Neill Ron Wagner again I'm not a collector I just think it's it'll be cool you know in 20 years to look back and have something that's like 50 years old maybe 96 legends of the dark night and I don't know how much these are worth but let's see what I paid for this little lot Chicho was again the one who is very knowledgeable about he's a comic book connoisseur quite literally and he encouraged me to in you know indirectly to collect or at least start a little collection add to my little collection I already had I could have sworn yeah I'm pretty sure I got it

from this yeah okay this was the most reason one wow look at that ordered on June 13th 2021 so literally a year and one day ago because it's the next day now exactly a year ago. It's in a wheelchair. Part 3 of 3, so I guess that goes with... At least we got 1 and 3. Oh no, my mistake. We got part 2 right here. It turns into an actual bat. Next package, I think actually we might have opened this one as one. So, copy of the Orbs of Heaven. I think I was so enthralled by the book the actual contents of the book that I I was looking for another one that's that was intact at least let me get something I can put the book on and so thirty one dollars six dollars shipping okay so I

actually I stand corrected this one yeah yeah so this was the twenty five one actually I said the other one must 25 bucks. It turns out, I guess because the cover was missing, man, I would have paid that guy $20 easily for this. Because look at the difference in the spine. This one's all just a cloth embossed. This one's actual leather. You could see the difference. But I think I got this one because it looked nice. It looks like I'm about to be only paid apparently a dollar 50 for this book so that's insanely cheap it's missing a cover yeah but

nothing else it's in such good condition too so I'm gonna have to personally and thank that guy especially for the the handwritten note in 53 pretty looked at this I won't go into it anymore but it's very very cool especially all the plates all the pictures

that were in it. A picture of Caldean Shepherds or you know an illustration naming the constellations. Yet it says names are fixed to these different groupings but when and where and by whom we know not.

Someone decided to say look at that contradiction. It looks like we already have our next candidate. It's a relatively new book but this is a very famous astronomer. Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy at Cambridge, The Nature of the Universe.

This was really just another book. This wasn't really a collector's or anything. This was another book I kind of wanted to just gauge. It's got pictures here. The status of our knowledge about the universe, really. The title Frontiers of Astronomy conveyed the the cutting edge knowledge that it contains at that time. See, it doesn't have black holes, I wonder. It should.

It should say something about them at least. That would be an interesting chapter. The galaxy has a magnet. I'mical distances. This book I paid 56 for inflation. That'll be for another episode, I guess. Which I do want to do an episode on, um, just general the basics of black holes even though I probably won't even be able to

understand that much but yeah just want to do an overview on black holes because they're fascinating and I've been meaning to do one about the M87 black hole so I think this might be the last one that I've pre-opened didn't want you guys think I was again pulling your leg too much this one is from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm gonna be real careful with this one. Rings of some old guild. Guilt.

Gilding. 46. I remember this was a interesting book because it was the textbook. It says, an introduction to astronomy designed as a textbook for the students of

Yale College. See the moon. They have that massive crater at the bottom represented. It's the best that they could see at that time. There's Jupiter. His moons. Five days into a waning or no waxing moon. Saturn and his. In 46. I thought that was pretty cool. So that's what with the math is 180, 176 years old. It's my best guess I'm moving on. What? What the interesting? book to, you know, browse through and see how much I know. Probably not very much. Too bad. The hour being given at any place to tell what hour it is at any other part of the world. The phases of the moon right there. This is probably a newer one. South Carolina. Nested packages. All right. My favorite. Job for the razor. This is not, this definitely does not feel like a new book. history of Greece. Look at that. That's a big boy. Does it focus? It's too big to focus. The idea that the idea that I could make some videos. Pictures to go along with the history of Greece. And let's see how this addition is. Doesn't say on the front page here, but the history of Greece by Thomas Knightley or Keatley.

Gaitley, to which is added a chronological table of contemporary history. Joshua Tooleman Smith, author of Comparative View of Ancient History and Explanation of 379 brought up here a lot bigger than the other ones, the previous books, Plataia 129. It's from the year 1839. I paid... What did I buy this book for? What did I buy? $50.

So I paid a little more than I did for some of these other books here. Other books there. Um, I think just because it had so many really cool pictures and I'm getting so interested in history. So maybe I shouldn't have paid that much. I don't know. It's almost, you know, 180 years old, though. So for me, it's 190 almost.

It's pretty cool. I think is a worthwhile investment at least. Portings have been running into the afternoon in South Florida here in the summertime, July 14th. So always almost like clockwork between two and four. get some afternoon thunderstorms. Zeus wakes up. The description of Greece, the original state.

They break it up, and I guess to aristocratic period. The democratic and the monarchic period, I guess. Greece began going downhill. Or at least lost its cultural battle. Rome started casting its longer shadow over Greece. Much more about the Jewish history and the narratives that center, you know, the Bible is centered around in ancient Greek and Roman history.

And even Egyptian and Babylonian Mesopotamian history going further, yeah, further back in time than that, because it's just such, all those are the cultures out of which our Western civilization has sprung and been inspired and influenced by. So I just feel like there's so much to learn about our culture to be able to be an effective, you know, person and to understand the movements and the ideas that we're unconsciously assuming and reacting against something. sometimes so I just thought why not what they had to say about it you know 200 years ago and there's some cool pictures to go along with it that's a bonus purposes let's check out some pictures reception the Persian heralds Greeks don't look too pleased marathon right there set the one before after the 300

Spartans died an interesting example of the mixture of African and you know early European or at least Greek Hellenistic the Athenian fleet in five triremes from Eritrea soon arrived at Miletus being joined by the Malaysians proceeded to Ephesus ancient societies and civilizations were interacting in interracial so much more than we are. I feel like race wasn't even a thing. You were black. I mean, I don't know, I'm sure there were discrimination against people of skin tones that differed from your own. But definitely wasn't outright.

It was more of a class status. Be sold. Free. men could be people could be sold into slavery. It looks almost the city plan of Athens. Wow. You're the great entering Babylon. That guy died and he was in his mid-30s. That's just so unreal to think he conquered thousands of miles of territory before he drank himself to death. Okay. Does that fit up there? What else we got? That was the last of the small packages, four larger boxes and three maps, which either maps or they call

folios like pages from books, just single pages I guess. Okay, so we are nearing the end. That's I guess it's been sitting on the shelf for a year or so they probably didn't know that what's gonna happen. This is, uh, it's just so funny, like I forgot what I even bought. So it is Christmas in July. That's for sure. And up top, no big deal. I've seen worse. Tare on the back, the edges. A little rip. But look at this guys. I guess that's the top. Look at this. This book, um, this box said is four books, different, uh, philosophers, broken in thinkers and philosophers, broken into the speculative, the political, the philosophers of science and the social. Philosophers. You have man, of course, meaning humanity.

Man in spirit, man in the state, man in the universe, science. Man and man. The social realm. Again, this is my, uh, it's kind of an addiction and I need to stop it, but I need to slow down a lot because I buy books way, like seriously, way quicker than I read them. I haven't read books I bought 10 years ago, you know, so I really want to learn philosophy and I'm sure once I actually start really reading it, I'm gonna, uh, wish I hadn't, I just want to challenge myself. and more than that I want to challenge myself in a meaningful to me domain and that's

learning how to think and to learn how to think I think I think I need to understand or at least try to understand some of the most some of the most profound speakers thinkers writers I think I need to understand the most profound humans that have left their legacy to us at least in the West and maybe maybe in the East too I think there's writings from the Upanishads in here I like this because it is wisdom not just from the West but from the East too at the Upanishads which I've read that before actually Augustine Aquinas the dialogue with death brahmana the Bhagavad Gita Benoza Pascal I mean another excerpt from Hume here Berkeley Kant Schopenhauer Nietzsche William James I mean these are the most profound thinkers and you know based on the little bit of reading I've done I've realized that if I'm ever gonna if I'm ever gonna grow as a person I

need to let not reinvent the wheel even though I couldn't even do that if I wanted to but it's just foolish not to expose yourself to the what wisdom and knowledge and insights previous you know geniuses of thought and have you know taking pains to write down and leave a great place to start is where people think where there's been a general consensus about where knowledge lies and that's often in great books great literature great philosophy great breakthroughs in science and in the wisdom buried within the parables and myths of religious texts you know thorough Adam Smith haigle and Marx we're gonna see Francis Bacon in here I bet

maybe even Roger Bacon who knows Lucretius Copernicus Descartes that guy is an interesting guy I have only heard him through Michael Dr. Michael Sue Gruz lectures on YouTube but he he was a polymath for sure he was trying to come up with a theory of everything Berksome Darwin Freud white hat or this guy I have never heard of him James Jeans this is ethics how to treat you know other people reflections on yourself would be more I guess how to understand yourself that would be the deepest type of philosophy I think but um this is really the core of morality and ethics is you know the questions of how how do you interact and view

other people we have Aristotle Plato epicurus epictetus Aurelius Confucius lots of Montaigne Emerson and John Dewe So I think I paid a pretty penny for this. Yeah. No, I didn't look at that. That's awesome. I paid 20 bucks for this guys. Five dollars a book. That's a steal. That's so amazing. And I bought it on 420 last year. Sweet. News from Ohio again. Man, lots of goodies in Ohio. I forgot how much these were. This is a... well it's an ancient history series there's one in here I paid so there's a 1767 astronomy book we have yet to unbox that I paid an exorbitant amount for I will tell you guys when we come up to that one fifty dollars for this one too so I paid fifty for the history of Greece and then this one

one, two, volumes two and three of eight. I paid $50 so, you know, 25 a piece, which really, given that it was two books, is not that bad. That's literally just gonna dead fly. 18, 19, yes it is. Yeah, this is why I bought this book. Late Principal of the University of Paris,

translated from the French in eight volumes. This is volume two. A new set of maps, 19. 1819, 203 year old map. Cool is that? All the way from Turkey, Asia Minor. See, I'm never, never knew you, a given. That is so cool. It is so cool.

It says here the map is to explain the history of the Assyrians, in the Babylonians, in the Maydays, Meads, I don't know, Maydays, and Persians, including Alexander's expedition. So cool. Okay, I want to close this just in case I do something. It's before I rip it or something. The Jenians, the Assyrians, Syrians, Syrus, Babylon by Cirrus. Taking a Babylon by Cirrus. Let's check out. the other book now. Nice. Let's see Paul Allen's book. I love that. I feel like I sound like him sometimes. That's gonna reference that. The sick reference. Again, this is mainly just for historical value in the map. The map is the coolest part, probably. It looks like the map might be

pinned right there. Okay, so this is a close-up of Turkey. Asia Minor here is Asia Minor The Expedition of Cirrus And the retreat of the 10,000 Babylon Like the uh the manual packages And um Trying to see which this last

We have one more box And then three maps Orfolios, pages, leaves And that's it So I think this last box is the big spender. It's as much as all these other books combined. And I think it was worth it.

I still do. I'll stand by my purchase. Actually, this is such a big box. I need to rearrange this. So I'm back, washed my hands for the most part. It's like VHS tape. Written a $50. That was actually, I was in a bidding war with someone.

That's why I paid so much. Let's see, the exact amount actually is... 345. I got a deal. Honestly, I was kind of nervous that I paid that much for it, but... Again, I think it's an investment. I'm actually really nervous to even up. 15 times the amount, then I paid for my other astronomy books. So, I'm a little more cautious with this one here.

This thing is from... I can't put into word. Neat it is. How awesome. just how all struck I am right now, thinking about the history, where this has been, the shells, the homes it's been in, the shells it's been in, the shells it sat on, the hands that have the ASMR that's been made from it. So cool. History of astronomy, Gostard's history of astronomy. I got the leather binding leather spine and replicate that in a movie if you tried. I don't think. It would take a long time. See I'm nervous to even though you can see the spine is just like mm-no

no but it may be like this see the date on this I'm sure there's a really cool picture in history of astronomy with its application geography history and chronology occasionally exemplified by the globes. I've got actually Greek, Custard, M.A. Vicar of Twickenham in Middlesex. London, printed by James Lister, a little Boswell court, and sold by Jane Newberry at the Bible and Son in St. Paul's Churchyard. 17. Let's see. You know what for this one, I'm going to have to bring the camera to that. 1,500, 100, 150, 105, 1 in 1. 1767. 1767.

Here's my whole setup in case you guys are wondering right now. Type is, compared to my hand. Phaomedes. Cleomides. It says the Cleomides, an author, but little known, is supported to, is supposed to have wrote not long before the beginning of the Christian era. His tritece called the cycliothuria.

It's divided into two parts. The sphere, as it was taught in his time, in the second of the periods of the planets. The magnitude of the sun and the moon, their distances from the earth, and their eclipses. This tritease, this treatise, geography and astronomy. is extracted as he acknowledges himself from the writings of Pythagoras, Eritosthenes, Hipparchus, Pesiposidonius, names well known, and greatly celebrated.

So, 1767, that means that this book is 300, no, sorry, that's a close-up and a half there, isn't it? and 250 years old, something like that. Book, it definitely, definitely hurt my pocket. Broke the bank a little bit, but again, I think it's an investment. They're having observed the Evans for 470,000 years. Doris Cicillus, Cicillus, says 473,000 years. But the Galdians accurately observed the rule. risings and settings of the stars.

Oh, but as he acknowledges it, this building was, he acknowledges that this building was in ruins at this time, and that the authors were not agreed in their accounts concerning it, all that he says on it, and the observations made there must be looked upon only as hearsay. man Alexander the Great and even discovered

Herschel or Uranus when this book was written as I could show you guys the leather binding on these books but this is for me it's just like it's the history

that really gets me embossing right there on the edge detail that went into ordinary books is astounding such a piece of history open up our last packages this has been a long one but I'm excited we're gonna be looking at even further in history guys going even further back even further back these is actually a magazine written by

Miemannelsis and his girlfriend so maybe maybe it'll be this one but I wanted to support them I think doing art and doing a magazine and or no sorry it's a comic or maybe it's a uh a magazine that's a compendium of comics i'm not really sure i just like what he's doing on his channel so i wanted to support it so this is from 1832 and this uh got this because it was a it was a review of some sort of first computers Never. Charles Babbage. This is, uh, I like the concept behind this magazine. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Team 32 here. Francis Bacon. This looks like a, um, a review of a book by Charles Babbage. Babbage wrote something, uh, generally just a, uh, a breakdown of the, principles of the 1800s steam engine technologies and all the various areas like the printing press and clothing household goods manufacturing and with each item he used that item they said in here to highlight the different branches of each principal the an interesting thing here about the word manufacture which they say means fabrication by the hand which has become singularly inapplicable to the thing which it is used to denote the human hand

now performs but a comparatively small part in most of those processes to which the name of manufacturers is given and in some of the most stupendous and wonderful of them its aid is hardly at all employed. The aid of the hand says where the steam engine plies its mighty energies, man has in many cases little more to do than look on. If the expression of a manufacturing company were to be taken in its literal sense

as meeting a country where the articles were generally made by the hand, it would be much more truly applicable to Spain or Russian, or Poland or Hindustan or indeed any other country on earth than to ours meaning England any history of the computer Charles Babbage is one of the original innovators and inventors of the you know the use of binary logic basically in machines to analytical calculations so what did I pay for this one what did I pay for this one the economy of machinery was the book this is meme analysis goes by the Goddisc on Instagram want to shout out Chris he's the

only other person I've had on this channel as far as like an interview and as I get larger I'd like to know you as I have more opportunity to talk to other people. I'd like to continue to talk to you know use that to to push my my knowledge really just get to connect with interesting people on the internet and this is certainly one of them so they have him and his girlfriend I guess have a this is from again last year I bought all of this They have a, yeah, this is a collection of different comics. I couldn't tell you what, but it's interesting.

It's at least one hallmark of good art, isn't it? This is a really well-made book, like material-wise too. So, shout out to them. Meme analysis. I had an idea that this might be treasure we were after. It's pretty nice that it ended up being the last package. we had to open here. Look at that. The oldest certificate of authenticity here. The Bible. This Bible map is guaranteed to be a genuine, from a genuine original 19-1723, King James Version Bible.

A rare treasury of Christian history, Fulio Roman Front, Font London. How much did I pay for this one? $60.60. Akered geography taken from the Old and New Testaments containing most of, most of what that means, but E, Y, most of the then known parts of the world. See here it says, it says again, the Black Cases Euxinus. I wonder if that's a word for black. Egypt, the Red Sea, looks like a Lord of the... is apparently not a coincidence because he was a Christian, a scholar,

and an Englishman who wanted a mythology for his own people. So, although it was clearly fiction, he wanted a mythology that would represent the values of the English people. Coincidence, people came from Europe, who Europe is a... is on the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean actually means Middle Mediterranean. This is the sea of the Middle Earth. It's just interesting to me that

we didn't even study or know much about ancient history until the early 1600s, 1700s in the West. And now we know so much that they This map, 100 years old, something special. Do you have it guys of the Israelites in the desert being led by Moses for 40 years out of Egypt? That's amazing. Well, thanks for joining me on this journey.

This was really fun to open all these books and maps. Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks again to all my Patreon supporters. I know I don't shout you guys out enough, but it really means the world that you guys guys go out of your way to donate to the channel support everything I'm doing over here so thanks for watching thanks for your love and support and see you next time guys