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A production of Brecht’s play ‘The Life of Galileo’ directed by Jospeh Losey for the American Film Theatre series in which plays were filmed and then shown in theatres for two days and nights to...
The deployment phase for GALILEO, the European programme of civil radio-navigation by satellite will begin in 2006. GALILEO is compatible and interoperable with the American GPS but will furnish a more...
Recreation of the life and work of the Italian astronomer and mathematician Galileo. Includes dramatisations, contemporary images and comment and interpretation by historians Les Prince and Joel Roderick.
Discusses the Aristotelian earth-centred world system and its development into the Ptolemaic system. Looks at the scientific renaissance which followed Copernicus’ theory of a sun-centred system. Explains...
Europe, the sixteenth century. The Copernican theory that the earth revolves around the sun is considered false. Galileo, a courageous astronomer and inventor, constructs a superior version of the existing...
The three bands provide a historical background to Einstein’s theories of relativity by studying the scientific works of Galileo, Kepler and Newton. The compilation contains all or parts of MR GALILEO WAS...
Video recording using a single camera of a performance of Brecht’s ‘The Life of Galileo’ in a new version by David Hare at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 28 March 1994, with Richard Griffiths as...
A documentary tracing the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope. The film begins in 17th century Florence, Italy, with Galileo training his...
Discusses displacement, velocity and acceleration. Covers: relative motion; projectiles from standing and moving launch sites; Aristotlean ideas of motion; mation of the planets, geocentric, heliocentric;...
A close-up examination of the inner planets: 3-D images of Venus as seen by the ‘Magellan’ spacecraft; MARS: THE MOVIE, showing the red planet and prominent features as seen by the Viking spacecraft;...
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