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Describes the various scientific groups that began to form in 17th-century England: at Gresham College, London, in 1645 and in Oxford in 1657, culminating with the founding of the Royal Society in 1660....
Looks at the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which flourished from the 1760s until 1810. The society was characterised by an interest in scientific progress with a strong element of radical politics and...
Aimed at heads and teachers in primary schools to encourage them to develop a policy for science teaching. Shot in six schools in two authorities in Merseyside and in Edge Hill College of Education. Brings...
Professor Heller stresses the dangers of modern scientific thinking, and gives evidence that they were foreseen by Goethe. Professor Wells shows how many scientists would reply. Among Goethe’s ideas...
Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive...
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...
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr John Kendrew shows how, even at the time of the Snow-Leavis ‘two cultures’ debate, some Cambridge scientists were managing effortlessly to transcend the science-arts divide...
Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...
Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...
Dan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare. He looks at inventions such as The Turtle, the first submarine used in conflict; the interchangeable Baker rifle; Congreve’s...
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