The Eureka Years - Adam Hart-Davis
Category: Radio Productions
Narrator: Full Cast
Tags: Radio Productions, Science, Documentary
The Eureka Years A BBC History of Science By: Adam Hart-Davis Narrated by: Adam Hart-Davis Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 08-07-2021 Language: English Publisher: BBC Audio, Sciences long history is studded with eureka years, when radical and brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad, bad and dangerous thinking to transform the way we look at ourselves and our universe. Veteran broadcaster and polymath Adam Hart-Davis guides us through 16 of these pivotal years, examining the ways in which they revolutionised our scientific understanding., He begins with 1665, uncovering the truth behind the legendary story of Newtons discovery of gravity; and explores how two industrial breakthroughs in 1769 - the spinning frame and the steam engine - were connected with a robot that could apparently play chess. In 555 BC, he asks if Pythagoras really came up with the mathematical theorem that bears his name; and in 1965, he considers how the Cold War and advances
