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The Ascent of ManSeries 1Episodes

Back up to: The Ascent of Man

  1. The Long Childhood

    13/13Dr Jacob Bronowski takes stock of man's complex and often precarious ascent.

  2. Generation upon Generation

    12/13Dr Jacob Bronowski traces the history of genetics, from Gregor Mendel to DNA.

  3. Knowledge or Certainty?

    11/13Dr Jacob Bronowski considers how absolute certainty is beyond our grasp.

  4. World within World

    10/13The ideas that gave expression to the invisible, intangible structure beneath all matter.

  5. The Ladder of Creation

    9/13Dr Jacob Bronowski recounts the adventures of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin.

  6. The Drive for Power

    8/13Dr Jacob Bronowski reflects on the Industrial Revolution.

  7. The Majestic Clockwork

    7/13Dr Jacob Bronowski explores how Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are connected by light.

  8. The Starry Messenger

    6/13Dr Jacob Bronowski looks at the life, work and trial of Galileo.

  9. Music of the Spheres

    5/13Dr Bronowski gives his own novel proof of Pythagoras' famous theorem.

  10. The Hidden Structure

    4/13Jacob Bronowski examines man's probing of the hidden structure below the visible world.

  11. The Grain in the Stone

    3/13Jacob Bronowski discovers the origins of science in the interaction of hand and brain.

  12. The Harvest of the Seasons

    2/13Jacob Bronowski looks at mankind's move from nomadic pasturage to settled agriculture.

  13. Lower than the Angels

    1/13Jacob Bronowski opens the first programme at the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.