Connections: 5x3

Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance

Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.

Seasons and episodes

Season 5 : The Day the Universe Changed

Mar 19, 1985

5 - 1 : The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks

Mar 19, 1985

5 - 2 : In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason

Mar 26, 1985

5 - 3 : Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance

Apr 02, 1985

5 - 4 : A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge

Apr 09, 1985

5 - 5 : Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens

Apr 16, 1985

5 - 6 : Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution

Apr 23, 1985

5 - 7 : What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge

Apr 30, 1985

5 - 8 : Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution

May 07, 1985

5 - 9 : Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised

May 14, 1985

5 - 10 : Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality

May 21, 1985

Synopsis

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually ancient or medieval) and traces a path from that event through a series of connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.