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Five 10-minute programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to advances in science and understanding that have brought us to the brink of controlling and destroying our world .
Recreation of the life and work of the Italian astronomer and mathematician Galileo. Includes dramatisations, contemporary images and comment and interpretation by historians Les Prince and Joel Roderick.
Tells the story of Charles Darwin, exploring his personal life, looking at the impact of his work in his own time and on the modern world, and showing how both were profoundly influecned by his surroundings....
Looks at the life and work of Italian artist, sculptor, architect and engineer Leonardo da Vinci. Includes three-dimensional graphics to explain and ‘test’ Leonardo’s theories and designs,...
Writer Graham Hancock on a global search for evidence to prove this theory that the Nazcan civilisation existed some 10,000 years ago and remains of its legacy are still evident. 1: Hancock travels to Egypt...
The three bands provide a historical background to Einstein’s theories of relativity by studying the scientific works of Galileo, Kepler and Newton. The compilation contains all or parts of MR GALILEO WAS...
Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the Science Policy Research Unit, introduces John Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques that enabled the double helix structure of DNA...
An exploration of the building and testing of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project. Includes dramatisations, a 3-D virtual environment,...
An exploration the ‘Codex Leicester’, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, which allows the user to read the mirror writing in English or Italian; tour artworks and documents, including all Leonardo’s known...
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