Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World. Episode 11, Telescopes and Microscopes
(2019, original release: 2013)
Nonfiction
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2013
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
6771376
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
You might assume that all inventions arise from science, but this is not always so. As the history of telescopes and microscopes demonstrates, the invention of new technology facilitates scientific advances. In this case, optical technology drove the Scientific Revolution, allowing Galileo and others to establish the scientific method of observation
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W. Bernard Carlson
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2013
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English