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Three part series in which Professor Brian Cox looks at British scientists and their contributions to the modern world.
This Learning Object consists of a three vodcasts by Jim Bennett, Director of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, on the Newtonian telescope - why Newton designed it, and how it fits into the story...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations. The most famous alchemical text is the Emerald Tablet, written around 500BC and attributed to the mythical...
Britain may only be a small island, but its great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world: from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web to the discovery...
Why was the young Charles Darwin’s fascination with geology so important for his later work and why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? This podcast with Professor Jim Secord,...
Video recording of the 2007 Michael Faraday Lecture given at the Royal Society by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. While Europe languished in the Dark Ages the spread of Islam heralded a remarkable period of...
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explores the work of Charles Darwin in this 3-part series for Channel 4. Darwin’s theory of evolution has always been at the crux of Dawkins’ criticism of...
Celebrating ‘Einstein year’, one hundred years since the great scientist’s Special Theory of Relativity and fifty years since his death, this CD features previously unpublished and rare recordings. The...
This 30-minute programme Peter Evans investigates how science deals with new ideas and asks whether a conservative establishment is stifling creative research and science is merely a consensus of what the...
A series of 15-minute programmes exploring how our ideas about the end of the universe have been shaped by religion, belief, and the contemporary state of scientific thinking and observation. Presented by...
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