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Rubber Universe, The (1994 Video)

Director

Storm Thorgerson

Producer

Geoff Deehan

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the disputes surrounding the Hubble constant started 60 years ago by American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. In 1929 he discovered that all of the galaxies are rushing away from us and concluded...

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Measuring Shadows (1980 Video)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Shows how scientists using the world’s largest optical telescopes have explored the origins of the universe. Ranges from Kant’s early speculations to Edwin Hubble’s observational evaluation of a...

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Here Be Monsters (1993 Video)

Producer

Alec Nisbett

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Edwin Hubble’s telescope, built 70 years ago, revealed the galaxies and the expansion of the universe. But now the space telescope named after Hubble is uncovering much more, including dramatic changes in...

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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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Big Bang, The (2003)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £35.00

An introduction to the Big Bang theory, explaining: how Hubble laid the foundation of the Big Bang theory when he discovered that distant galaxies were receding from the earth, indicated by the ‘red...

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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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Stephen Hawking’s Universe (2010)

Subject

Astronomy; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes (DVD) 240 minutes (Blu-ray)), £24.99

Series of six programmes in which Professor Stephen Hawking considers topics in cosmology. 1: Explores mathematics and how it revolutionised our view of the universe. Covers Ptolemy’s theory of the motion...

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