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| Points out that people in every age have been sure that what they knew was truth, but that we have always moved on to new knowledge. The program poses questions about progress, truth, and tolerance. |
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| Explores the study of geology and fossils and their ideas that species evolved over great periods of time. Also delves into how Darwin's concept of survival of the fittest was adapted to justify... |
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| Explores the Industrial Revolution and the explosive development of capitalism in the 18th century. Shows how growing wealth, coupled with innovations in business and credit, created a new industrial... |
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| Shows how the questioning and rational attitude of the classical Greeks is at the root of Western thought with its continuing exploration of new ideas. |
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| Explores the bitter conflict between reason and faith that followed the Crusaders' invasion of Spain in the 11th century, when Christian Europe recaptured from the Arabs a treasure of Greek, Roman, and... |
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| Looks at the evolution of physics through time. As Newton's thought revised an earlier physics, so advances in the study of magnetism, electricity, light, sub-atomic particles and other phenomena led... |
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| Explains how the printing press transformed the medieval world, making learning widely available; the acceleration and systematization of knowledge was enormous. |
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| Analyzes the advancement of knowledge that finally demolished Aristotle's physics, causing bitter conflict with the church. Covers changes from Copernicus and Galileo to Newton. |
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| Reveals the startling changes that grew out of new discoveries of perspective geometry, new architectural techniques, and the ability to map the world and cross oceans. Also explores how this led to a... |
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| Depicts how medicine gradually developed into a science as well as how scientific medicine and statistics in turn led to the concept of public health. |
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