Educational film series
A History of Science in Society is a 13-part series which traces the history of that most compelling and important of human activities – the need to study and understand the physical world. Through a series of riveting lectures and wide-ranging student discussions, science is explored and revealed as a historical entity in its own right. Hosted by Professor and author, Dr. Lesley Cormack of the University of Alberta, Canada.
Titles in this series
2005 · 60m
When a map is built, are we showing the physical world, or are we merely projecting our world…
2005 · 60m
Historians debate whether war is essentially destructive or constructive for the development of science. Certainly both world wars…
2005 · 60m
Historians debate whether war is essentially destructive or constructive for the development of science. Certainly both world wars…
2005 · 60m
Using Galileo as an example, this program delves into the ongoing relationship between science and power, and how…
2005 · 60m
As European nations ventured out to grab other lands - and to fight their European rivals in other…
2005 · 60m
The race for the structure of DNA, just over 50 years ago, is a wonderful story of intrigue…
2005 · 60m
Einstein, Planck and other physicists of the early 20th century proposed a world of relativity which stood in…
2005 · 60m
The importance of Arabic thinkers has long been overlooked, and considered merely as an interlude and repository for…
2005 · 60m
Who was Darwin? What is his argument? And what is its relationship to the brutal social Darwinism that,…
2005 · 60m
Exactly what was the scientific revolution? Common wisdom would have us believe a progression of thought from the…
2005 · 60m
What are the underlying assumptions, good and bad, we have about science and scientists? What is the relationship…
2005 · 60m
Will science destroy us or transform us? As science turns inward to the manipulation of our genetic structure,…
2005 · 60m
Why did the thinkers and society of pre-Christian Era Greece have such a profound effect on the development…
2005 · 60m
Is science a masculine enterprise, suited to the male intellect and unsuited to the female? Or has science…