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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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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