The Day the Universe Changed - Complete Series - 5-DVD Set

The Day the Universe Changed - Complete Series - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
500 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robin Bextor

Written By:
James Burke

Actors:
James Burke ..... Himself - Host (10 episodes, 1985)

Synopsis:

Presented by veteran BBC historian and science reporter James Bourke, The Day The Universe Changed explores influences of discoveries and shared knowledge and perception of the Universe and man's place on it. James Bourke looks at times when new knowledge or discoveries has altered that thinking and explores the cultural changes those discoveries effected.
Season 1
The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict - Faith and Reason
Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
What the Doctor Ordered: Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
Making Waves: The New Physics - Newton Revised
Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality

Season 1
The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
S1, Ep1 Mar. 19, 1985
The Ancient Greece based origins of modern Western Civilization's primary value of individuality driven curiosity that drives it to question and explore reality.

In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict - Faith and Reason
S1, Ep2 Mar. 26, 1985
Introduction of the knowledge from captured Islamic Spanish libraries transforms the Europe's conception of knowledge and the fact that it can advance.

Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
S1, Ep3 Apr. 2, 1985
The introduction of perspective techniques transforms Europe's use of art, architecture, geography and navigation among others with its revolutionary concept of remote positioning.

A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
S1, Ep4 Apr. 9, 1985
The introduction of practical mass printing ends Europe's predominate reliance on memory and its related concepts of reality and authority.

Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
S1, Ep5 Apr. 16, 1985
The publication of Copernicus' theory of a heliocentric universe profoundly challenged Europe's concept of the universe and the authority of the Church.

Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
S1, Ep6 Apr. 23, 1985
The rise of land enclosure and advances in engineering help transform the West's major economic philosophies.

What the Doctor Ordered: Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
S1, Ep7 Apr. 30, 1985
The advance of modern medicine and public health comes at the cost of the fields becoming depersonalized with their increasing use of statistics and microbiology.

Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
S1, Ep8 May 7, 1985
The introduction of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution undermines the concept of divine creation while providing a rationale for both capitalism and communism.

Making Waves: The New Physics - Newton Revised
S1, Ep9 May 14, 1985
Modern physics became disconnected from popular knowledge from a public that increasingly confused advances in engineering with pure science.

Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
S1, Ep10 May 21, 1985
James sums up his ideas about the effect of different worldviews on science by showing how different cultures approach it in their own way.

This series based on a simple premise, the universe is essentially only how you yourself perceive it. If you change what you know about the universe, then to you, you have essentially changed the universe itself. In this series, James Burke explores nine key moments in the history of the Western world when the introduction of new knowledge and/or technology has led to profound changes in how the West thinks. These include things like the introduction of Guttenberg's printing press, Copernicus's sun centered universe model and Darwin's publishing of his theory of evolution.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 05 February, 2013.