The Day the Universe Changed Season 1

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1x01 The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks aired Mar 19, 1985

Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought through its major transformations since the days of ancie... read more

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1x02 In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason aired Mar 26, 1985

Relates that in the course of overrunning Moorish Spain, Christian Europe discovered libraries, universities, optics, mechanics, and natural philosophy. This... read more

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1x03 Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance aired Apr 02, 1985

Shows that Western Europe’s rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revolutions in art and architecture. The West’s new-found abil... read more

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1x04 A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge aired Apr 09, 1985

Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the nature of knowledge from the local and traditional to the syste... read more

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1x05 Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens aired Apr 16, 1985

Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural phenomena than those of Aristotle. Highlights... read more

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1x06 Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution aired Apr 23, 1985

Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade... read more

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1x07 What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge aired Apr 30, 1985

Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the French Revolution and an English cholera ep... read more

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1x08 Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution aired May 07, 1985

Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geology, and biology to Darwin’s theory of ... read more

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1x09 Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised aired May 14, 1985

Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists to the realization that Newtonian physics is inadequate to... read more

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1x10 Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality aired May 21, 1985

Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. The series closes with host James Burke's ... read more

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