Seasons & Episodes
EP 1
Vitruvian Man
He looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to ar
EP 2
Copernicus
When Polish priest and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his extraordinary theory of a sun-centred universe 500 y
EP 3
The Crucial Experiment, Isaac Newton
In the mid-1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, which were to be the basis of a series
EP 4
The Rose Diagram, Florence Nightingale
A look at Florence Nightingale's use of statistical graphics as a call to action following her experience of caring for
EP 5
DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick
In the last hundred years, one diagrammatic image stands above all others. It represents a scientific breakthrough that
EP 6
Pioneer Plaque
A look at the Pioneer Plaque, which was installed on the unmanned space probe Pioneer 10 to communicate facts about Eart
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