
The Beauty of Diagrams
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.
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- Ep 1
1.Vitruvian Man
18-11-201060mHe looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to architecture, and defines our species like no other drawing be...
- Ep 2
2.Copernicus
25-11-201060mWhen Polish priest and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his extraordinary theory of a sun-centred universe 500 years ago, he was flying in the face of both science and reli...
- Ep 3
3.The Crucial Experiment, Isaac Newton
02-12-201060mIn the mid-1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, which were to be the basis of a series of experiments that would unlock a secret that had occupied...
- Ep 4
4.The Rose Diagram, Florence Nightingale
09-12-201060mA look at Florence Nightingale's use of statistical graphics as a call to action following her experience of caring for soldiers during the Crimean War of 1854-1856. She compiled h...
- Ep 5
5.DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick
16-12-201060mIn the last hundred years, one diagrammatic image stands above all others. It represents a scientific breakthrough that has been voted the most significant in the 20th century, mor...
- Ep 6
6.Pioneer Plaque
23-12-201060mA look at the Pioneer Plaque, which was installed on the unmanned space probe Pioneer 10 to communicate facts about Earth and its inhabitants to potential life on other planets aft...
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