James Clerk Maxwell – When Light Became an Equation
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19th Century
Episodes on Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Mendeleev, and Pasteur cover evolution, electromagnetism, chemistry, microbiology, and the growth of experimental science in the nineteenth century.
Dmitri Mendeleev – The Man Who Dreamed the Table
Before the periodic table, the elements were a list. A growing list, a confusing list, but still a list. Chemists knew the elements as substances with certain properties, and they had begun to suspect…
Charles Darwin – Father of Natural Selection and Evolution
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Michael Faraday – New Language for Nature
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Louis Pasteur
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