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Photon Connection, The (1983 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min.

The 1982/83 Faraday Lecture presented on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Shows how Michael Faraday and his discovery of electromagnetic induction, with today’s understanding of the...

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Scientific Enquiry: Big Questions - The Nature of Scientific Enquiry

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 100 minutes), £19.00

Five 20-minute programmes on the life, work and struggles of scientists who have made great intellectual leaps: Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Mendeleev, and Hubble. The programmes ask how they did it, what they...

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Science in Focus: Big Questions

aka: The Nature of Scientific Enquiry

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 5 x 20 minutes), £45.00

Five programmes presented by Adam Hart-Davis. Each focuses on the life and works of key scientific figures. How did they do it? What did they owe to their contemporaries? Why were their ideas so often...

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Structure of the Atom (1985 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the history and development of the model of the atom. In six 10-minute segments: The Earliest Models (Democritus, Roger Bacon, William Gilbert, Niccolo Cabeo, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Augustin...

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David Attenborough: Perception, Deception and Reality (2004)

Subject

Media studies; Science

A recording of the Michael Faraday Lecture delivered by David Attenborough at the Royal Society on 28 January 2004. Once, technical inadequacies led natural history film-makers to distort events or even...

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The House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science (2008)

Subject

Science

Video recording of the 2007 Michael Faraday Lecture given at the Royal Society by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. While Europe languished in the Dark Ages the spread of Islam heralded a remarkable period of...

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Nova: Absolute Zero (2008)

Director

David Dugan

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 112 minutes), $24.95

The epic story of humanity’s struggle to master extreme cold. This Nova special recreates groundbreaking discoveries across four centuries that expanded our knowledge of low temperatures and led ultimately...

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