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The world is revolving, so "how come if you jump up you don't land somewhere else?". Two academics guide the viewer away from the intuitive reasoning of the ancient greeks to the scientif...ic method of Galileo and Newton. Three short historical dramas are used to show how explanations of 'the motion of objects' have evolved.
The world is revolving, so "how come if you jump up you don't land somewhere else?". Two academics guide the viewer away from the intuitive reasoning of the ancient greeks to the scientif...ic method of Galileo and Newton. Three short historical dramas are used to show how explanations of 'the motion of objects' have evolved.
| Module code and title: | S271, Discovering physics |
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| Item code: | S271; 01; 1994 |
| First transmission date: | 23-03-1994 |
| Published: | 1994 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Ancient Greeks; Aristotle; Galileo; Theory of gravitation |
| Subject terms: | Science--History; Weight (Physics); Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 |
| Master spool number: | DOU7317 |
| Production number: | FOUS658S |
| Videofinder number: | 4549 |
| Available to public: | no |
