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… see more

In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason 0.0

March 26, 1985

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… see more

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 … see more

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… see more

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… see more

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… see more

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… see more

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… see more

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 … see more