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== Information == | == Information == | ||
- | The Day the Universe Changed (the 10-part series) is one of the best teaching tools available today for making students aware of the great ebb and flow of ideas that have gone into the development of Western thought. Host James Burke gives a stunning overview of this evolution of thought since the days of the Greeks in this ten-part series co-produced by BBC-TV and RKO Pictures. | + | ''The Day the Universe Changed'' is a ten-part documentary television series presented by science historian James Burke. It tells a series of stories of how specific scientific and technological advances have shaped the Western way of life. |
- | <br clear="all"> | + | The series posits that when one’s view of the universe changes, the universe itself effectively changes. The series’ primary focus is on the effect 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 through what you know; therefore, if you change your perception of the universe with new knowledge, you have essentially changed the universe itself. |
- | === The Way We Are === | + | To illustrate this concept, 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. |
- | Written and presented by James Burke, this 10-part series traces the development of Western thought through its major transformations since the days of ancient Greece. Program one is an overview of the series, showing how a culture's view of the world around it determines how it sees itself, and is reflected even in the smallest de tails of its customs and habits. | + | === The Way We are === |
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+ | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot0.jpg|right|thumb]] | ||
+ | The first in a series of ten program this episode illustrates the development of Western knowledge. The inquisitive and logical attitude of the classical Greeks is at the foundation of Western thought with its continuing exploration of new ideas. | ||
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=== In the Light of the Above === | === In the Light of the Above === | ||
- | Relates that in the course of overrunning Moorish Spain, Christian Europe discovered libraries, universities, optics, mechanics, and natural philosophy. This rediscovery of classical knowledge led to the founding of universities and the replacement of Augustinian philosophies by Aristotelian theories. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot1.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | The bitter conflict between reason and faith that followed the Crusaders' invasion of Spain in the 11th century is studied. The time when Christian Europe recaptured from the Arabs a treasure of Greek, Roman, and Arab scientific knowledge. | ||
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=== Point of View === | === Point of View === | ||
- | Shows that Western Europe's rediscovery of perspective through the study of Arab optics led to revolutions in art and architecture. The West's new-found ability to control things at a distance resulted in new methods of warfare and the confidence to make long voyages of exploration. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot2.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | The astonishing changes that developed out of new discoveries of perspective geometry, new architectural techniques, and the ability to map the world and cross oceans. Also explores how this knowledge led to a new individualism. | ||
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=== A Matter of Fact === | === A Matter of Fact === | ||
- | Observes that the invention of printing and the advent of cheap paper forever transformed the nature of knowledge from the local and traditional to the systematic and testable. Nationalism, public relations, and propaganda are among the results. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot3.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | The medieval world which relied largely on memorized knowledge and the spoken word was transformed by Gutenberg's discovery of the printing press. This new knowledge is examined and connections are drawn to subsequent revolutions in Western thought. | ||
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=== Infinitely Reasonable === | === Infinitely Reasonable === | ||
- | Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural phenomena than those of Aristotle. Highlights the theories that led to a new conception of how the universe works and of man's place in it. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot4.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | This program explains how from 1550 and forward science began to undermine the Church-sanctioned Aristotelian doctrine of the universe, in which the Sun and all the planets revolved around the Earth. In its place, was established the model to which we adhere today of a clockwork universe, governed by discoverable laws of math and physics. | ||
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=== Credit Where It's Due === | === Credit Where It's Due === | ||
- | Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade. The invention of the steam engine, new forms of credit, surplus wealth, and opening markets laid the foundation for industrial society. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot5.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | This episode examines the reasons for and the effects of the Industrial Revolution. Shows how growing wealth, coupled with innovations in business and credit, created a new industrial society. | ||
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=== What the Doctor Ordered === | === What the Doctor Ordered === | ||
- | Traces modern society's recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the French Revolution and an English cholera epidemic. Identifies the origins of medicine as a science with the discovery of anesthesia, antiseptics, and bacteriology. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot6.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | This program looks at the rise of modern medicine and its surprising relationship with the invention of statistics, which doctors used to validate the efficacy of diagnoses and treatments, In particular it examines how bacteriology put the patient on a microscope slide and brought about a world in which even healthy human beings were reduced to statistics. | ||
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=== Fit to Rule === | === Fit to Rule === | ||
- | Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geology, and biology to Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory, in turn, has been used as a justification for Nazism, communism, and cut-throat capitalism. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot7.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | This episode examines the mid-nineteenth century emergences of the theory of evolution and its affects. | ||
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=== Making Waves === | === Making Waves === | ||
- | Points out that studies of the properties of magnetism, electricity, and light have led scientists to the realization that Newtonian physics is inadequate to explain all that they observe. The public, meanwhile, has continued to concentrate on the technological by-products of science. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot8.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | Examines the evolution of physics through time. As scientists in 1800 investigated the new electric battery, their commonsense Newtonian world began to fall apart. A new science slowly evolved from pioneers from Faraday to Einstein. | ||
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- | === Worlds Without End === | + | === Worlds without End === |
- | Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. Citing the example of Nepalese Buddhism, a system as complete and satisfactory of Nepal as science is for the West, the series ends with a plea for tolerance. | + | [[Image: The-Day-the-Universe-Changed-DVDRip-x264-chaptershot9.jpg|right|thumb]] |
+ | The final program reviews the entire series, recalling the many systems of belief which have been discarded as the discovery of new knowledge rendered them apparently invalid. The series closes by posing a philosophical question: if each truth is valid in its time, then is knowledge itself only what we make it? | ||
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== Technical Specs == | == Technical Specs == | ||
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== Links == | == Links == | ||
=== Further Information === | === Further Information === | ||
+ | * [http://www.documentary-video.com/items.cfm?id=1303 Documentary-Video Publishing] | ||
+ | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_day_the_universe_changed The Day The Universe Changed on Wikipedia] | ||
* [http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=16227&hl=day+the+universe+changed Audiobook and ebook which the series is based on] | * [http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=16227&hl=day+the+universe+changed Audiobook and ebook which the series is based on] | ||
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General Information
History Documentary hosted by James Burke and published by BBC in 1985 - English narration
Information
The Day the Universe Changed is a ten-part documentary television series presented by science historian James Burke. It tells a series of stories of how specific scientific and technological advances have shaped the Western way of life. The series posits that when one’s view of the universe changes, the universe itself effectively changes. The series’ primary focus is on the effect 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 through what you know; therefore, if you change your perception of the universe with new knowledge, you have essentially changed the universe itself. To illustrate this concept, 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.
The Way We are
The first in a series of ten program this episode illustrates the development of Western knowledge. The inquisitive and logical attitude of the classical Greeks is at the foundation of Western thought with its continuing exploration of new ideas.
In the Light of the Above
The bitter conflict between reason and faith that followed the Crusaders' invasion of Spain in the 11th century is studied. The time when Christian Europe recaptured from the Arabs a treasure of Greek, Roman, and Arab scientific knowledge.
Point of View
The astonishing changes that developed out of new discoveries of perspective geometry, new architectural techniques, and the ability to map the world and cross oceans. Also explores how this knowledge led to a new individualism.
A Matter of Fact
The medieval world which relied largely on memorized knowledge and the spoken word was transformed by Gutenberg's discovery of the printing press. This new knowledge is examined and connections are drawn to subsequent revolutions in Western thought.
Infinitely Reasonable
This program explains how from 1550 and forward science began to undermine the Church-sanctioned Aristotelian doctrine of the universe, in which the Sun and all the planets revolved around the Earth. In its place, was established the model to which we adhere today of a clockwork universe, governed by discoverable laws of math and physics.
Credit Where It's Due
This episode examines the reasons for and the effects of the Industrial Revolution. Shows how growing wealth, coupled with innovations in business and credit, created a new industrial society.
What the Doctor Ordered
This program looks at the rise of modern medicine and its surprising relationship with the invention of statistics, which doctors used to validate the efficacy of diagnoses and treatments, In particular it examines how bacteriology put the patient on a microscope slide and brought about a world in which even healthy human beings were reduced to statistics.
Fit to Rule
This episode examines the mid-nineteenth century emergences of the theory of evolution and its affects.
Making Waves
Examines the evolution of physics through time. As scientists in 1800 investigated the new electric battery, their commonsense Newtonian world began to fall apart. A new science slowly evolved from pioneers from Faraday to Einstein.
Worlds without End
The final program reviews the entire series, recalling the many systems of belief which have been discarded as the discovery of new knowledge rendered them apparently invalid. The series closes by posing a philosophical question: if each truth is valid in its time, then is knowledge itself only what we make it?
Technical Specs
XviD version
- Video Codec: XviD
- Video Bitrate: ~1900 kbps (TVcap)
- Video Resolution: 640x480 (1.33:1)
- Video Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Audio Codec: mp3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3)
- Audio BitRate: 192 kbps @ 48000 Hz
- Audio Channels: 96/ch, stereo
- RunTime Per Part: ~45 mins
- Number Of Parts: 10
- Part Size: ~680 MB
- Ripped by Suprhomer
x264 version
- Video Codec: x264 CABAC
- Video Bitrate: CRF 18 (1952 Kbps average)
- Denoise: medium
- Video Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Video Resolution: 720x480
- Audio Codec: AC3
- Audio Bitrate: 192 Kbps 48KHz
- Audio Channels: 2
- Run-Time: 50 mins
- Framerate: 29,970 FPS
- Number of Parts: 10
- Part Size: 779 MB (average)
- Source: DVD
- Encoded by: Hydrogen2Oxygen
Links
Further Information
- Documentary-Video Publishing
- The Day The Universe Changed on Wikipedia
- Audiobook and ebook which the series is based on
Release Post
- MVGroup.org (ed2k)
- MVGroup.org (torrent)
- DocsPT.com
- DonkeyHeaven.com
- FileHeaven.org
- FTIReloaded.net
- ShareVirus.com
- VeryCD.com
Related Documentaries
- Books - The Last Chapter
- Everything and Nothing
- Is Everything We Know about the Universe Wrong
- Earth 2100
- Industrial Revelations
- The Machine that Made Us
- The Ascent of Man
- Once upon a time: Man
- Connections 1
- Connections 2
- Connections 3
- 100 Greatest Discoveries
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