The Day the Universe Changed

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The Day the Universe Changed (subtitled "A Personal View by James Burke") is a British documentary television series produced by and starring science historian James Burke, originally broadcast in 1985.

The series' primary focus is on the impact of advances in science and technology on western philosophy. The title comes from the philosophical idea that the universe essentially only exists as you perceive it; therefore, if you change your perception of the universe, you have changed the universe itself.

To illustrate this idea, James Burke tells the various stories of important scientific discoveries and technological advances and how they fundamentally altered how western civilization perceives the world. The series runs in roughly chronological order, from around the beginning of the Middle Ages to the present.

Episodes

1. [Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality]
2. [Darwin's Revolution]
3. [It Started with the Greeks]
4. [Medieval Conflict: Faith & Reason]
5. [Printing Transforms Knowledge]
6. [Science Revises the Heavens]
7. [Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance]
8. [Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge]
9. [The Factory & Marketplace Revolution]
10. [The New Physics: Newton Revised]

Titles as given in the Episodes

1. The Way we Are
2. In Light of the Above
3. Point of View
4. A Matter of Fact
5. Infinitely Reasonable
6. Credit Where it's Due
7. What the Doctor Ordered
8. Fit to Rule
9. Making Waves
10. Worlds Without End

See also

Connections (TV series)

External link

• http://youtube.com/watch?v=pELGr0pTruc&search=james%20burke

 

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