
Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.
Air Date: 1985-03-19
Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought through its major...
Air Date: 1985-03-26
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Air Date: 1985-04-02
Shows that Western Europe’s rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revolutions in art and...
Air Date: 1985-04-09
Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the nature of knowledge fro...
Air Date: 1985-04-16
Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural pheno...
Air Date: 1985-04-23
Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters...
Air Date: 1985-04-30
Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the Fre...
Air Date: 1985-05-07
Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geo...
Air Date: 1985-05-14
Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists to the realization...
Air Date: 1985-05-21
Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. Th...