The Beauty of Diagrams(2010)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2010-11-18
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Vitruvian Man
Air Date: 2010-11-18
He looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to...
E02
Copernicus
Air Date: 2010-11-25
When Polish priest and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his extraordinary theory of a sun-centred universe 50...
E03
The Crucial Experiment, Isaac Newton
Air Date: 2010-12-02
In the mid-1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, which were to be the basis of a seri...
E04
The Rose Diagram, Florence Nightingale
Air Date: 2010-12-09
A look at Florence Nightingale's use of statistical graphics as a call to action following her experience of caring f...
E05
DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick
Air Date: 2010-12-16
In the last hundred years, one diagrammatic image stands above all others. It represents a scientific breakthrough th...
E06
Pioneer Plaque
Air Date: 2010-12-23
A look at the Pioneer Plaque, which was installed on the unmanned space probe Pioneer 10 to communicate facts about E...
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