The Day the Universe Changed

The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks

Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought...

In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason

Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance

Shows that Western Europe’s rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revo...

A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge

Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the natur...

Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens

Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanation...

Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution

Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by re...

What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge

Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from re...

Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution

Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing scien...

Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised

Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists...

Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality

Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the n...