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Audio Visual Resources	535 LIG	Available

Summary

• Episode 1 : Greek and Arab scholars, and later Europeans such as Descartes and Newton all tried to understand light to gain a better understanding of God. Episode one shows how much of modern science's origins came from the desire to penetrate the divine
• Episode 1.Let There be Light Episode -- 2.The Light of Reason -- 3.The Stuff of Light -- 4.Light, The Universe and Everything
• Episode 2 : Explores the link between the development of practical tools that manipulate light and the emergence of new ideas. For example, Galileo's observation that the sun did not go around the earth, was made with a telescope that had been invented f
• Episode 3 : Charts the discovery of the true nature of light and its impact on the modern world. All of today's technologies - electricity, mobile communications and our ability to illuminate the world 24 hours a day - stem from unravelling the mystery o
• Episode 4 : In the final programme Simon Schaffer finds that as more people were able to manipulate light, the more puzzling and tricky it became. This led to investigations into the strange relationship between light, the eye and the mind, and the devel

Table of Contents

• It is a journey that encompasses art, brown shin, God, infrared, electricity, the kaleidoscope, photosynthesis, quantum theory and X-rays. And it also encounters history's greatest debates and thinkers from Newton's revolutionary ideas to Einstein, who began to understand what light really was. The great names in science are brought to life through dramatic reconstruction, showing them as they struggle to perform difficult experiments in difficult circumstances - battling against the church, great rivals, bad conditions and even their own eccentricity.
• This series explores man's growing understanding of light, travelling through 2000 years of history to tell stories of scientific experiment, philosophical argument and technological advancement.

Notes

• "IVCD 9311"--Disc label.
• 1 DVD
• Disa No. --- DVD 38245
• Languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin -- Subtitles: Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), English.
• Special features: -- secne selection -- graphic menus
• Title on containers.

Discipline

• Sci. 科學

Publisher

• Hong Kong : Deltamac Co., Ltd

Call Number

• 535 LIG

Permanent link to this record:

• http://library.skhhtcss.edu.hk/opac/bib/AHrP

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