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  1. Great Scientists (2004)

    Subject
    FE; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

    Oxford historian Professor Allan Chapman presents a series on five great scientists. The programmes combine location filming, animation, comedy and drama to challenge many existing notions about these thinkers.

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  2. Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews (2002)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 180 minutes), $49.93 (set)

    Buckminster Fuller described himself as a "living verb." Holder of 48 honorary doctorate degrees, born in the 1890s, he was a philosopher and engineer whose experience and global view of humanity and science...

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  3. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking out Loud (1996)

    Subject
    Engineering; Philosophy; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 94 minutes), $34.99

    A true Renaissance Man, Buckminster Fuller, best remembered as the architect and creator of the geodesic dome, made an equally dramatic mark as an engineer, inventor, poet, visionary, philosopher and...

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  4. Power of Myth, The (1988)

    Director
    Bill Moyers
    Producer
    Catherine Tatge
    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 342 minutes), £19.99

    During the last two years of Joseph Campbell’s life journalist Bill Moyers interviewed him at filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City....

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  5. Scientific Enquiry: Big Questions - The Nature of Scientific Enquiry

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 100 minutes), £19.00

    Five 20-minute programmes on the life, work and struggles of scientists who have made great intellectual leaps: Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Mendeleev, and Hubble. The programmes ask how they did it, what they...

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  6. Gravity - History of Idea - Early Geocentric to Modern Heliocentric Models

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Follows the path of the ancient Greeks, Renaissance Europeans and early British in their search for an understanding of the properties of the universe. From the simple versions of Geocentric models to the...

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  7. Modern Philosophy

    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 42 minutes), £133.36 [Institutional rate]

    During the 16th century, a new breed of thinker arose, equal parts philosopher and scientist. In this programme, Paul Guyer, of the University of Pennsylvania; Rutgers University’s Colin McGinn; and...

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