Scientific Enquiry: Big Questions - The Nature of Scientific Enquiry
- Synopsis
- 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 owed to their contemporaries, why were their ideas so often resisted, and what their stories reveal about the nature of scientific enquiry.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Documentation
- Support pack giving more detail of the life and work of the scientists featured, available separately
Programme notes available online at www.channel4.com/programmenotes - Uses
- Students 14+
- Subjects
- Science
- Keywords
- history of science; philosophy of science; scientific research; scientists
Distribution Formats
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
- Price
- £19.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 5 x 100 minutes
- Year
- 2006
Sections
- Title
- Faraday’s Famous Inventions
- Synopsis
- The story of how Michael Faraday became a world-famous scientist.
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Title
- Darwin’s Evolution
- Synopsis
- The origins of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Title
- Mendel and the Gene Splicers
- Synopsis
- Gregor Mendel’s experiements laid the foundations for understanding genetic inheritance.
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Title
- Mendeleev’s Dream
- Synopsis
- The story of how Dmitri Mendeleev devised the periodic table of the elements.
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Title
- Hubble’s Expanding Universe
- Synopsis
- The story of how the expanding universe was discovered.
- Duration
- 20 mins
Distributor
- Name
4 Learning
- Notes
- Channel 4 Learning has now closed. This used to be the educational broadcasting arm of Channel 4. The online shop sold educational DVDs and CD-ROMs for use in primary and secondary schools.
- Name
AVP
- info@avp.co.uk
- Web
- http://avp.100megs28.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01291 625439
- Fax
- 01291 629671
- Address
- School Hill Centre
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Monmouthshire
NP16 5PH - Notes
- Use for: Audio Visual Productions. Ceased trading.
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