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The story of science. What is the secret of life? / produced and directed by Giles Harrison.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
- Leonardo, da Vinci.
- Biology.
- Human body.
- Local Subjects:
- Biology.
- Human body.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 min.)
- Other Title:
- History of science. What is the secret of life?
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- In What is the Secret of Life?, we take an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known - the human body. It begins with attempts to save the lives of gladiators in Ancient Rome, unfolds with the macabre work and near-perfect drawings of Leonardo in the Renaissance, through the idea of the 'life force' of electricity, to the microscopic world of the cell. It reveals how a moral crisis unleashed by work on the nuclear bomb helped trigger a great breakthrough in biology - understanding the structure and workings of DNA.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 21, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 904566095
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