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The Long Childhood
13/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski takes stock of man's complex and often precarious ascent.
Generation upon Generation
12/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski traces the history of genetics, from Gregor Mendel to DNA.
Knowledge or Certainty?
11/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski considers how absolute certainty is beyond our grasp.
World within World
10/13 The ideas that gave expression to the invisible, intangible structure beneath all matter.
The Ladder of Creation
9/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski recounts the adventures of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin.
The Drive for Power
8/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski reflects on the Industrial Revolution.
The Majestic Clockwork
7/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski explores how Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are connected by light.
The Starry Messenger
6/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski looks at the life, work and trial of Galileo.
Music of the Spheres
5/13 Dr Bronowski gives his own novel proof of Pythagoras' famous theorem.
The Hidden Structure
4/13 Jacob Bronowski examines man's probing of the hidden structure below the visible world.
