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Gobind Khorana, joint Nobel Prize winner for medicine1968, talks about his early education in a village in rural India, his studies at Lahore University and the University of Liverpool, and later in...
Dr Simon Schaffer presents a short biography of Sir Isaac Newton, explains his main scientific achievements, and sets them in the context of his life and times. Shot on location at Woolsthorpe Manor and...
Part 1 (1983): An introduction to the series. Aristotle’s view of air motion over bodies. The work of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Newton’s mechanics and his application of the momentum principle to...
Given that Newtonian science is usually identified with the culture of the Enlightenment of the 18th century, Dr Simon Schaffer considers the relationship between the way of life of the English élite and...
Surveys the state of medical knowledge and treatment in the 17th century.
Einstein used the theory of relativity in conjunction with the universal constancy of the speed of light to unify space and time in a way that provided new descriptions and insights to physical phenomena....
Explains the background to Newton’s ‘Principia’ of 1687 and looks at the developments in cosmological science during the 17th century. Following the observational and mathematical work of Copernicus,...
In Cambridge in the mid-19th century many eminent physicists, investigating different areas, extended the current understanding of space and time. One man, Maxwell, bridged their findings with the...
Examines the idea of an expanding universe covering briefly the main lines from Newton to the 20th century.
Newton’s synthesis of terrestrial and celestial mechanics was so successful that it seemed that all of physics - and perhaps all of life - was deterministic. Newton’scheme allows for infinite speeds. In...
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