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Let's talk about that for just a second because this is a book that you can buy today on Amazon.
It's got 4.5 stars or something and it was written by Frederick II and he loved birds.
He loved falcons especially. He would spend hours and hours just watching birds.
This turns out to be a textbook from the 13th century and it's crazy.
It's like Frederick really wanted to be a scientist more than anything else and
he should have stuck with birds because when he started experimenting on humans.
Go ahead. He's experimenting on humans. He's trying to be a scientist but talk about his
falconry book. He did learn everything from Aristotle and all the medieval people and he
read all this stuff in Arabic because he spoke Arabic which is another thing which is very
interesting. He's one of the few Roman emperors that actually was Arabic was like one of his
first languages because he grew up in Sicily that was controlled by Muslims during the time of his
youth. So he spoke Arabic and so he learned a lot of stuff from like at that point the
Mongols were speeding to peak but the renaissance age of Islam was just coming to its end.
So all that knowledge from China and Islam he read it all but then he combined that theoretical
knowledge with 30 years of actual observations on birds. So it was an actual and when he compared
what these textbooks says from Aristotle on to his own observation and he was willing to say
that Aristotle was wrong on this. This is not the way falcons act. This is the way they act and I
can tell you because I got bit by one right. So very it is the first really modern scientific
textbook right on birds. He also wrote one on hawks but it didn't survive so that would have
been good and he wrote one on veterinary medicine that also didn't survive but the ones on falcons
did survive in all four volumes and you can get it on Amazon. Go check it out. Four out of five
stars. One of the few you know ancient or with probably the only medieval you know
holy Roman empire that you can still has the best seller on Amazon.
Goofy historians is the funnest place to learn about history or is it the funniest.
Can I interview you or you or you or you or maybe you guys. How about you?
