Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 32 minutes
Imperial Science
Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
Mathematics and Platonism
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Evolutionary Psychology
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
Laws of Nature
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
Imagination and Consciousness
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
Chemical Elements
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
The Natural Order
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.