A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space (Babylonia, Egypt) to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine (Langley) and the discovery of radioactivity (Curie). - Summary by Steven Seitel
Chapters
1 00 Preface 6 min 2 01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia 24 min 3 02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle 27 min 4 03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius 22 min 5 04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs 24 min 6 05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon 28 min 7 06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes 24 min 8 07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle 23 min 9 08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society 27 min 10 09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin 26 min 11 10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith 23 min 12 11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel 22 min 13 12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule 26 min 14 13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy 25 min 15 14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune 23 min 16 15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle 28 min 17 16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister 32 min 18 17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane 23 min 19 18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances 21 min 20 19 The Scientific Imagination 21 min 21 20 Science and Democratic Culture 23 min
