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  1. Copernicus and His World (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores the background to the birth of modern astronomical theories. A graphics sequence explains various astronomical theories that were still commonly held in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In...

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  2. Mining for Science (1992 Video)

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

    Investigates the development of the scientific ideas of Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), a found of the modern science of geology, in his dual role as professor of mining and mineralogy at the minds in...

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  3. Newtonians, The (1992 Video)

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

    Examines the influence of Newton on scientific thinking in the 18th century, and the rise of what became known as Newtonianism. Discusses ‘Principia Mathematica’ and ‘Optics’, which gave rise to the...

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  4. Pandora’s Box. Part 1: The Engineers’ Plot (1992 Television)

    Producer
    Edward Mirzoeff
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 60 min.

    PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the 20th century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists. Part 1...

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  5. Pandora’s Box. Part 2: To the Brink of Eternity (1992 Television)

    Producer
    Adam Curtis; Edward Mirzoeff
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 60 min.

    PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the twentieth century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists....

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  6. Pandora’s Box. Part 4: Goodbye Mrs Ant (1992 Television)

    Producer
    Adam Curtis; Edward Mirzoeff
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 60 min.

    PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the twentieth century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists....

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  7. Portuguese Voyages of Discovery, The (1992 Video)

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

    Reflects on the momentous voyages of Portuguese navigators in the 15th century. Uses a full-scale replica of a caravel of the period to re-create the conditions of those voyages and shows how sailors used...

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  8. Publicity of Oxygen, The (1992 Video)

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

    Discusses different explanations given for the existence of fire and air from Aristotle to Georg Ernst Stahl’s theory of phlogiston, before covering the dramatic events that effect those pneumatic chemists...

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  9. Scientific Community in Seventeenth-Century England, The (1992 Video)

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

    The foundation of the Royal Society, and the nature of the scientific community within which it functioned. There were few professional ‘scientists’ in the modern sense in late 17th-century Britain, but...

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  10. Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing (1992 Video)

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

    The story of Alan Turing, credited by many as the father of the modern digital computer. The programme highlights the importance of Turing’s early interest in logic and mathematics, as well as his later...

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