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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 3

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Episode nine of this series focuses on Galileo, a prolific inventor and scientist. He discovered the principle of the simple pendulum motion, very useful in the measure of time and later in the making of clocks.

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this video, a young Galileo gets one of his first revolutionary ideas on how to measure time. Pretty impressive for a fourteen-year-old, huh?

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 13. Stephenson - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In part two of this series, "Once upon a Time... the Discoverers," Maestro talks about Cugnot, the inventor of the steam traction engine.

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Caption 15 [fr]: Cette machine n'est pas économique, je vous l'assure. Elle gaspille du charbon.
Caption 15 [en]: This machine is not economical, I assure you. It wastes coal.

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In part four of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo, now a reputable scholar at the University of Padua, proceeds to make a telescope out of lenses with the help of his instrument maker, Marc'Antonio. In this cartoon, an attempt is made to explain Galileo's discoveries.

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Caption 2 [en]: which will enable us to measure the acceleration of time.
Caption 2 [fr]: ce qui permettra de mesurer l'accélération du temps.

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Maestro explains how the revolutionary ideas of the early discoverers, which we now take for granted, were not always well received. Before Galileo, for example, everyone believed that the sun and all the other planets revolved around the earth!

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Caption 8 [en]: They sought to measure time that gives the hour
Caption 8 [fr]: Ils ont cherché à mesurer le temps qui donne l'heure

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amerigo Vespucci sails for the New World to explore new territories discovered by Columbus, draw accurate maps, and find the true route to the Indies. As his ship approaches "Little Venice," or Venezuela, the crew comes into contact with some local natives.

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Caption 20 [en]: Tonight I'll go on land. That way I'll measure the latitude.
Caption 20 [fr]: Cette nuit, je vais aller à terre. Comme ça je prendrai la latitude.

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Il était une fois: l’Homme - 6. Le siècle de Périclès - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the last segment of this animated series on ancient Greece, we learn about the later years of the empire, filled with endless wars and the ostracism of some of its most famous citizens.

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Caption 41 [fr]: mais Protagoras, l'homme mesure de toute chose,
Caption 41 [en]: but Protagoras, man the measure of all things,

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Il était une fois: l’Homme - 6. Le siècle de Périclès - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the next installment of Il était une fois..., we meet some of the great thinkers of ancient Greece: Socrates, Euripides, Sophocles, Protagoras, Anaxagoras, and others. You're sure to be enlightened by the end!

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Caption 28 [fr]: Protagoras: "L'homme est la mesure de toute chose;
Caption 28 [en]: Protagoras: "Man is the measure of all things;

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