Science & Medicine

Seven Ages of Science

BBC

A history of science in Britain from the Restoration to the present day. Weaving science back into everyday life, Lisa Jardine shows how the concerns of the scientist are the concerns of us...

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7 episodes

Age of Now

Lisa Jardine explores what's driving science in the 21st century: curiosity, politics, profit or PR?

27:53Sep 17, 2013

Age of War

Lisa Jardine explores how military demands mobilised science not in World War II, but in World War I. The idea that Britain's scientific exp...

28:05Sep 10, 2013

Age of the Lab

Lisa Jardine explores how scientists became separated from wider society. Until the end of the 18th century, most scientific endeavour took...

27:45Sep 3, 2013

Age of Inspiration

Lisa Jardine explores an Age in which scientists took leaps of faith. At the start of the 19th century, fossils were a mystery. Mary Anning...

27:52Aug 27, 2013

Age of Opportunity

Lisa Jardine explores how the advent of mass manufacture in the Midlands changed scientific endeavour from a gentlemanly pursuit into a grit...

27:28Aug 20, 2013

Age of Exploration

We're often told that science changed our world. In this series, Lisa Jardine explores how the world changed science, pushing it in new dire...

28:03Aug 13, 2013

Age of Ingenuity

In the first of her Seven Ages of Science, Lisa Jardine explores the history of modern science in Britain from its birth in Restoration Engl...

28:04Aug 6, 2013

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