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When I was in college (a long while ago) I happened upon adocumentary series on PBS that has stayed with my through theinterveningdecades.  It was on the history ofscience, and since I was studying chemistry that was right up myalley.  Thething impressed me about the show was that the host (and writer), JamesBurke,took a wide view of man's progress.  Hedidn't limit himself to one discipline, nor did he merely catalog whathumanshave discovered.  He presented an earlyinnocuous invention or event and then traced the effects of thatadvancement throughhistory, connecting one discovery to another until, centuries later, wefind that the use of the stirrup at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 setinmotion a chain of events that eventuall...Read the entire review

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In 1969 the BBC broadcast one of its first colordocumentaries, Civilization.  Written andpresented by art historian Kenneth Clark, this 13-part series looked atthegreat works of European culture starting in the Dark Ages, and advancedthe theory(among others) that art was a significant force in driving civilizationforward.  Polish-born mathematician JacobBronowski disagreed and thought it was science that advanced humanityandcivilization.  As a counterpoint to Clark's series, Bronowski convinced the BBC toproduceThe Ascent of Man, a 13-partdocumentary that traces the development of manfrom prehistoric cave dwellers t...Read the entire review

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