The Day The Universe Changed: 3 -- Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance

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Host, James Burke

In two parts

Ages 16 through adults

Shows the startling changes that grew out of the study of Arab optics. From the discovery of perspective geometry came new painting and architecture, the ability to measure at a distance and to map the world, and the confidence that allowed Columbus to cross the Atlantic. Above all the new knowledge led to a new individualism

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