The Story Of Science
About the show
For thousands of years we have wrestled with the great questions
of existence. Who are we? What is the world made of? How did we get
here? The quest to answer these is the story of science.
In each of the six episodes that make up this BBC series, medical
journalist Michael Mosley traces the often unpredictable path we
have taken. From recreating a famous alchemist's experiment, to
following in Galileo's footsteps, Michael unpicks how science has
changed the way we see ourselves, and the way we see our
world.
It is a tale of courage and of fear, of hope and disaster, of
persistence and success. It interweaves great forces of history -
revolutions, voyages of discovery and artistic movements -
with practical, ingenious inventions and the dogged determination
of experimenters and scientists.
This is the story of how history made science and how science made
history, and how the ideas which emerged made the modern world.
