Season 1 (2010)

Vitruvian Man
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November 18, 2010 • 1h

He looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to architecture...Read more

Copernicus
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November 25, 2010 • 1h

When Polish priest and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his extraordinary theory of a sun-centred universe 500 years ago, ...Read more

The Crucial Experiment, Isaac Newton
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December 2, 2010 • 1h

In the mid-1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, which were to be the basis of a series of experim...Read more

The Rose Diagram, Florence Nightingale
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December 9, 2010 • 1h

A look at Florence Nightingale's use of statistical graphics as a call to action following her experience of caring for soldiers d...Read more

DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick
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December 16, 2010 • 1h

In the last hundred years, one diagrammatic image stands above all others. It represents a scientific breakthrough that has been v...Read more

Pioneer Plaque
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December 23, 2010 • 1h

A look at the Pioneer Plaque, which was installed on the unmanned space probe Pioneer 10 to communicate facts about Earth and its ...Read more