March 19, 1985
Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought through its major transformati...Read more
March 26, 1985
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April 2, 1985
Shows that Western Europe’s rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revolutions in art and architecture...Read more
April 9, 1985
Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the nature of knowledge from the local a...Read more
April 16, 1985
Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural phenomena than tho...Read more
April 23, 1985
Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from ...Read more
April 30, 1985
Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the French Revolutio...Read more
May 7, 1985
Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geology, and bio...Read more
May 14, 1985
Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists to the realization that Newtoni...Read more
May 21, 1985
Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. The series clos...Read more