WHITEFIELD, P.: History of Science (The) (Unabridged)

Format:

• Sound recording

Author/Creator:

• Whitfield, P. (Peter), Author.

Contributor:

• Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

• Naxos Spoken Word Library.
• Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

• Spoken Word.

Genre:

• Video recordings.
• Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

• One of the most impressive applications of geometry... ( 06 min., 19 sec. )
• Science in Medieval Christendom ( 05 min., 44 sec. )
• Cause was at the heart of this philosophy... ( 08 min., 06 sec. )
• Part 2: The Renaissance and The Scientific Revolution ( 04 min., 41 sec. )
• The Practical Sciences ( 07 min., 42 sec. )
• The Copernican Revolution ( 05 min., 23 sec. )
• Looking first at the movements of Mercury and Venus... ( 05 min., 14 sec. )
• The Scientific Revolution ( 06 min., 22 sec. )
• Tycho was a Danish nobleman who used... ( 06 min., 16 sec. )
• At the heart of all Kepler's study lay the problem... ( 05 min., 57 sec. )
• The Newtonian Synthesis ( 07 min., 21 sec. )
• Other Aspects of the Scientific Revolution ( 06 min., 31 sec. )
• As with astronomy, biology was revolutionised... ( 06 min., 52 sec. )
• Traditions of Science Outside Europe ( 06 min., 29 sec. )
• If there is one characteristic of non-western... ( 06 min., 22 sec. )
• Part 3: The 19th Century - The Machine Age ( 05 min., 27 sec. )
• The Dawn of Machine Power ( 05 min., 53 sec. )
• But another and more practical source of power... ( 04 min., 06 sec. )
• Heat and Energy: Thermodynamics and Electricity ( 05 min., 18 sec. )
• But Helmholtz was also a biologist... ( 07 min., 19 sec. )
• Chemistry ( 04 min., 58 sec. )
• However, some chemists were still not convinced... ( 03 min., 52 sec. )
• Astronomy ( 04 min., 23 sec. )
• The Life Sciences: Geology and Palaeontology ( 05 min., 20 sec. )
• The Darwinian Revolution ( 07 min., 27 sec. )
• Human Biology ( 07 min., 04 sec. )
• Medicine ( 05 min., 46 sec. )
• Anthropology: The Science of Man ( 05 min., 38 sec. )
• Conclusion: The 19th Century Achievement in Science ( 05 min., 02 sec. )
• Part 4: The 20th Century - The New Labyrinth ( 05 min., 26 sec. )
• The Mystery of the Atom ( 06 min., 33 sec. )
• The crucial breakthrough in this field... ( 06 min., 55 sec. )
• Islamic Science ( 05 min., 13 sec. )
• The Decline of Classical Learning ( 02 min., 42 sec. )
• Roman Science ( 03 min., 57 sec. )
• Ptolemy ( 05 min., 12 sec. )
• Hellenistic Science - Medicine ( 04 min., 30 sec. )
• The second giant of Greek thought, Aristotle... ( 06 min., 39 sec. )
• Plato and Aristotle ( 04 min., 33 sec. )
• Strange as some of these speculations now appear... ( 04 min., 41 sec. )
• The Greek Genius ( 05 min., 27 sec. )
• The Beginning of Recorded Science ( 07 min. )
• Science in Ancient Civilisations ( 02 min., 42 sec. )
• Part 1: The Ancient and Medieval World ( 05 min., 10 sec. )
• Why was this tiny number so important? ( 04 min., 58 sec. )
• In one sense the core subject-matter of chemistry... ( 03 min., 23 sec. )
• Einstein ( 04 min., 32 sec. )
• From these apparently rarefied ideas... ( 04 min., 09 sec. )
• The Revolution in Cosmology ( 07 min., 34 sec. )
• Hubble continued his investigations... ( 06 min., 04 sec. )
• The Biological Sciences: Genetics ( 06 min., 37 sec. )
• Population geneticists of the 1920s... ( 06 min., 59 sec. )
• The Science of the Mind ( 05 min., 49 sec. )
• Retrospect: Man and Nature ( 08 minutes, 19 sec. )

Participant:

Whitfield, Peter, Reader

Notes:

• Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.
• Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9789626349939

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.