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

Year Published: 1986

Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Title from data sheet 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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