The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion
★ 7.4 · 2010 · 60m · Documentary
Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path
Episodes
1. What Is Out There?60m · How we came to understand our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos.
2. What Is the World Made Of?60m · How atomic theories and concepts of quantum physics underpin modern technology.
3. How Did We Get Here?60m · Michael Mosley tells how scientists came to explain the diversity of life on earth.
4. Can We Have Unlimited Power?60m · The story of how power has been harnessed from wind, steam and from inside the atom.
5. What Is the Secet of Life?60m · The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body.
6. Who Are We?60m · The sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are.More Like This
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