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  1. Founding of the Royal Society, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Barker
    Subject
    Mathematics; Science
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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....

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  2. Midlands Enlightenment, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    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...

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  3. Science in the Primary School (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    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...

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  4. Goethe As Scientist (1975 Video)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    David R Clark
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 37 min.

    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...

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  5. World of Buckminster Fuller, The (1971)

    Director
    Robert Snyder
    Subject
    Environmental science; Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 80 minutes), £16.99

    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...

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  6. 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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  7. Prizewinners, The: Interview with John Kendrew (1962 Video)

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

    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...

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  8. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    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...

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  9. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern Medicine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    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...

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  10. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: War Machine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    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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