The Day the Universe Changed
(1985)
Overview
Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.
Cast
Episodes
The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks 0.0
March 19, 1985
Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought through its major t…
In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason 0.0
March 26, 1985
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Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance 0.0
April 2, 1985
Shows that Western Europe’s rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revolutions in art and a…
A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge 0.0
April 9, 1985
Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the nature of knowledge from …
Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens 0.0
April 16, 1985
Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural phenome…
Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution 0.0
April 23, 1985
Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters b…
What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge 0.0
April 30, 1985
Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the Frenc…
Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution 0.0
May 7, 1985
Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geolo…
Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised 0.0
May 14, 1985
Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists to the realization t…
Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality 0.0
May 21, 1985
Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. The …