The Day the Universe Changed

  • Premiere: Mär 1985
  • Episoden: 10
  • Anhänger: 5
  • Geendet
  • BBC
  • Unbekannt
  • Documentary History

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The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
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Mär 19, 1985
Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought through its major transformations since the days of ancient Greece. Program one is an .. show full overview
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In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
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Mär 26, 1985
Relates that in the course of overrunning Moorish Spain, Christian Europe discovered libraries, universities, optics, mechanics, and natural philosophy. This rediscovery of classical .. show full overview
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Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
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Apr 02, 1985
Shows that Western Europe’s rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revolutions in art and architecture. The West’s new-found ability to control things at a .. show full overview
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A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
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Apr 09, 1985
Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the nature of knowledge from the local and traditional to the systematic and testable. Nationalism, public relations, and propaganda are among the results.
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Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
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Apr 16, 1985
Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural phenomena than those of Aristotle. Highlights the theories that led to a .. show full overview
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Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
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Apr 23, 1985
Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade. The invention of the steam .. show full overview
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What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
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Apr 30, 1985
Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the French Revolution and an English cholera epidemic. Identifies the .. show full overview
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Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
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Mai 07, 1985
Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geology, and biology to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin’s theory, .. show full overview
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Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
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Mai 14, 1985
Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists to the realization that Newtonian physics is inadequate to explain all that they .. show full overview
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Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
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Mai 21, 1985
Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. The series closes with host James Burke's remarkably prescient .. show full overview

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