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Episode 1 of James Burke's ground-breaking series "The Day The Universe Changed" which explores the evolution of Western Scientific thought starting from the fall of Rome.

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[F00dTube]

This is not your high school history. This show is on academic level. Everything Burke says in this show has a deeper meaning. As significant as Wittgenstein's quote at the beginning of the episode. Wittgenstein was deeply involved in logic and epistimology, how knowledge can be framed and how put into context.

[JamesBurkeWeb Channelle]

True.

[vyxanis]

Connections is my favourite show. James Burke is the kind of man that i WISH i had as a teacher in school. I have learned so much more through watching his shows than I did in school.

Great man, great info.. love it love it love it

[FastFoodies]

I would stay up every night and watch MST3K and then turn to TLC for Connections and Day the Universe Changed. Im so lucky to have found about this great man and his work. It took many years and the advent of youtube/netflix to recaptue the greatness. Gawd ! remember when TLC really was The Learning Channel, now its the have babies and redecorate network. Hail James !

[soapbxprod]

:)! So true- that's the coolest thing about all of JB's series- and maybe his main point? You can never know where your line of inquiry will lead... I remember in college that we used to joke about Tycho's metal nose and that he died when his bladder burst... and every night in that hole in the ground staring himself blind all night...

[JamesBurkeWeb Channelle]

About as assiduous as you can get! You can imagine what he must have been like in person ... Burke says "nasty piece of work by all accounts" which is probably very true. But imagine, throwing your entire adult life away (that is, your *entire life*) to sit down and do the necessary work for a result you could not predict, and that you knew you'd never see realized.

"But somebody has to do it!" ;)

[soapbxprod]

Viva Tycho! So Sorry for not mentioning him, JamesBurkeWeb. A most assiduous person. :)

[JamesBurkeWeb Channelle]

You left out the most important one. The one that made it all possible in the first place Tycho Brahe. Without his careful observations we might still be living in the Dark Ages. He believed, firmly, that you can't just make up your mind about what's going on up in the sky by pure logic. You *have to measure* and see if those measurements bear out your theory or not. He tossed away 20 whole years of his life in that pursuit. And in those days, 20 years is practically a lifetime.

BTW. see desc

[JamesBurkeWeb Channelle]

Well you're in for a treat because this series has been replaced by the original BBC versions (full length, no more 10 minute bits and no more scenes arbitrarily cut out). Just click the link in the video description or go to the channel page.

[Gene Olsen]

I am starting my 4th time through all of your videos. Every time I have seen them all I think this is the best thing on youtube.

Thank you so much.

[rlanceread]

we could not and eventually will not be able to continue with institutionalized change with the end of cheap oil.

[felicity4711]

Great! ☺

[JamesBurkeWeb Channelle]

I finally found them (or someone did for me). In the process of replacing them all.