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  1. Swedish Science in the Eighteenth Century (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at why Sweden became a great scientific nation in the 18th century. She had lost her status as a great political power, and hopes were placed in science to rebuild her economy. Important to this was...

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  2. Late Show, The (30 November 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The second of four programmes for Science Week. Philosopher Ray Monk asks how brain research is affecting our ideas about who we are and scientist Richard Dawkins traces the rise of the cultural virus; and...

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  3. Late Show, The 1 (14 January 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 45 min.

    Sarah Dunant chairs a round table discussion about science’s claims to unique cognitive status and its place in contemporary society and culture. With Professor Lewis Wolpert, Dr Jonathan Miller, Dr Robert...

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  4. Prizewinners, The (1962 Video)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. 60 min.

    Stephen Black engages Dr Max Perutz and Dr John Kendrew, Nobel Prize winners in chemistry for their discovery of the molecular structure of haemoglobin and myoglobin, and Dr Francis Crick, Dr James Watson...

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  5. Isaac Newton: His Life and Work (1984 Video)

    Director
    Colin Grimshaw
    Producer
    Kathleen Burk
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 31 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

    Dr Simon Schaffer presents a short biography of Sir Isaac Newton, explains his main scientific achievements, and sets them in the context of his life and times. Shot on location at Woolsthorpe Manor and...

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  6. Cosmology Before Newton (1980 Video)

    Producer
    David Hoyle
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min.

    Explains the background to Newton’s ‘Principia’ of 1687 and looks at the developments in cosmological science during the 17th century. Following the observational and mathematical work of Copernicus,...

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  7. Science Britannica (2013)

    Subject
    Science

    Three part series in which Professor Brian Cox looks at British scientists and their contributions to the modern world.

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  8. Culture Clash. Part 3: Experiments with the Truth (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    Historians and sociologists of science gleefully dissect many of the myths and legends of scientific discovery, and look at science as a fertile source of many of the images, myths and ideologies which...

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  9. Culture Clash. Part 2: The Power Houses (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    A sobering study of the arts-science divide in post-war English secondary and higher education, and of the frustrations and disappointments experienced by many scientists in Whitehall during the 1960s and...

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  10. Note of Uncertainty, A (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Rosenbloom
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the idea of an expanding universe covering briefly the main lines from Newton to the 20th century.

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