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Peter Whitfield: The History of Science (unabridged)

PRead by Peter Whitfield

  • Release Date: 29th Mar 2010
  • Catalogue No: NA499312
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

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Contents

Peter Whitfield: The History of Science (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Part 1: The Ancient and Medieval World

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Science in Ancient Civilisations

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The Beginning of Recorded Science

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The Greek Genius

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Strange as some of these speculations now appear…

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Plato and Aristotle

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The second giant of Greek thought, Aristotle…

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Hellenistic Science - Medicine

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Ptolemy

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Roman Science

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The Decline of Classical Learning

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Islamic Science

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One of the most impressive applications of geometry…

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Science in Medieval Christendom

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Cause was at the heart of this philosophy…

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Part 2: The Renaissance and The Scientific Revolution

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The Practical Sciences

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The Copernican Revolution

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Looking first at the movements of Mercury and Venus…

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The Scientific Revolution

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Tycho was a Danish nobleman who used…

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At the heart of all Kepler's study lay the problem…

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The Newtonian Synthesis

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Other Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

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As with astronomy, biology was revolutionised…

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Traditions of Science Outside Europe

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If there is one characteristic of non-western…

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Part 3: The 19th Century - The Machine Age

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The Dawn of Machine Power

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But another and more practical source of power…

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Heat and Energy: Thermodynamics and Electricity

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But Helmholtz was also a biologist…

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Chemistry

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However, some chemists were still not convinced…

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Astronomy

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The Life Sciences: Geology and Palaeontology

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The Darwinian Revolution

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Human Biology

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Medicine

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Anthropology: The Science of Man

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Conclusion: The 19th Century Achievement in Science

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Part 4: The 20th Century - The New Labyrinth

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The Mystery of the Atom

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The crucial breakthrough in this field…

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Why was this tiny number so important?

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In one sense the core subject-matter of chemistry…

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Einstein

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From these apparently rarefied ideas…

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The Revolution in Cosmology

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Hubble continued his investigations…

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The Biological Sciences: Genetics

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Population geneticists of the 1920s…

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The Science of the Mind

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Retrospect: Man and Nature

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