| The Ascent of Man DVD 2007 Jacob Bronowski |
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 | All 13 episodes on 5 DVDs. Quality is 10 of 10.
Comes with cases and artwork.
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The Ascent of Man (1973) was a groundbreaking BBC documentary series, produced in association with Time-Life Films, produced by Adrian Malone, and written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.
The 13-part series was shot on 16mm film. Executive Producer was Adrian Malone, film directors Dick Gilling, Mick Jackson, David Kennard, David Paterson. Malone and Kennard later emigrated to Hollywood, where they produced Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Jackson followed them, and now directs feature films.
The title alludes to The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin. Over the course of thirteen episodes, Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. It was written specifically to complement Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969), in which Clark argued that art was a major driving force in cultural evolution. Bronowski wrote in his 1951 book "The Commonsense of Science" : "It has been one of the most destructive modern prejudices that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests". Both series had been commissioned by David Attenborough, then controller of BBC2, although he had moved on by the time The Ascent of Man was aired.
The book of the series, The Ascent of Man: A Personal View by J. Bronowski, is an almost word-for-word transcript from the original television episodes, diverging from Bronowski's original narration only where the lack of images might make its meaning unclear.
Just over a year after the series appeared, Bronowski died.
Series outline
"Lower than the Angels" (describes evolution of the head)
"The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements)
"The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration)
"The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy)
"Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers)
"The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe)
"The Majestic Clockwork" (explores Kepler and Newton's laws)
"The Drive for Power" (the Industrial Revolution)
"The Ladder of Creation" (Darwin and Wallace's ideas on the origin of species)
Darwin Down House
Wallace collecting in South America
Evolution and biochemistry
Origin of life on earth
Miller experiment
"World within World" (the story of the periodic table)
Crystals
Mendeleev
Creation Bishop Usher
Evolution of the elements
Atomic Physics
Planck, Boltzmann
"Knowledge or Certainty" (There is no absolute knowledge)
"Generation upon Generation" (cloning of identical forms)
"The Long Childhood" (The commitment of man) |
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