The Day the Universe Changed - Episodes- Followmy.tv

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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