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The Day the Universe Changed is a ten-part documentary television series presented by science historian James Burke. The series tells a series of stories of how specific scientific and technological advances have shaped the Western way of life. The series posits that when one's view of the universe changes, the universe itself effectively changes.
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Episode Summary
During the Middle Ages, most of Europe was dominated by religious beliefs and it was through this frame of mind that people explained the world around them. After the Crusaders invaded Moorish Spain, they discovered an advanced civilization]] and thousands of years of knowledge. After spending 150 years translating thousands of texts, the Crusaders returned to northern Europe with vast amounts of knowledge, including the works of the Ancient Greek philosophers who had pioneered logical thinking. Thus, the Dark Ages ended as secular knowledge and logical thinking took precedence over religious superstition.Jump to Episode
- It Started with the Greeks
- Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
- Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
- Printing Transforms Knowledge
- Science Revises the Heavens
- The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
- Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
- Darwin's Revolution
- The New Physics: Newton Revised
- Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
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Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 1
*@-1:07: James Burke stops at a stop sign in the middle Tunisian Desert
*@-1:44: Inventors use patents to claim their inventions
*@-2:31: James Burke is in the city of Tunis articulating how through Science and Technology our standard of living has gone up
*@-3:11: James Burke explains our culture today is the opposite of what used to be; where we are facing forward rather then backwards
*@-3:30: As the Ancient Roman empire was falling apart, in Ancient Carthage during the 6th Century BCE a lawyer named Martianus Capella tried to salvage the Roman educational techniques
*@-4:10: Augustine of Hippo didn't want to figure out the world, but wanted to look forward to the second life
*@-6:08: Barbarians enjoyed farming and drinking
*@-6:53: Monks regularity visited remote Barbarians
*@-7:40: To Monks, nature was nothing more than symbols
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Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 2
*@-0:30: For centuries in Europe people believed their status was given to them by God
*@-1:22: On Christmas Day, year 800, Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope
*@-1:34: When Charlemagne took over, all but some priests were illiterate
*@-1:46: Charlemagne brought in intelligent people like Alcuin of York to begin the educational system using the same educational methods that Martianus Capella salvaged in 6th Century BCE
*@-2:27: Seven Liberal Arts: Music, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, grammar, rhetoric and logic
*@-3:34: By the year 950, Europe was back on it's feet and by the year 1000 trade had begun and the very first European marketplaces opened up.
*@-4:27: The birth of consumerism and the concept of eating out
*@-5:25: By 1050 Bologna, Italy was a vibrant trade route between northern and southern Europe
*@-7:23: Bologna had many status symbols
*@-8:00: 1076 Ancient Roman Law was discovered
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Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 3
*@-0:38: El Cid led Christian Crusades to liberate southern Spain from the Arabs
*@-1:10 The Mezquita in Cordova, Spain took 200 years to build and was the 2nd largest mosque next to Mecca
*@-1:50: In 970 there were mo1re books in Cordova, Spain then there were in the whole of France, not to mention 70 libraries
*@-2:44: The Spanish Arabs of Cordova enjoyed the amenities that the best technology and engineering of the time could offer
*@-3:20: Arab Spain gave Europe paper, poetry, desserts and more
*@-3:46: El Cid's Christian armies were comprised of mercenaries
*@-4:25:: In 1080, Alfonso VI of Castile took advantage of a vulnerable Arab Spain to claimed a Crusade victory at Toledo Spain
*@-4:30: James Burke calls the Crusades in Spain "great Christian Propaganda"
*@-4:50: Marriage between Christians and Arabs was common in 11th Century Spain
*@-4:47: The fall of Toledo Spain in 1085 is a Christian Myth
*@-6:12: Toledo Spain was a treasure trove for European scholars because it contained so much knowledge
*@-6:30: It took 150 years for scholars to translate the Arabic texts into Latin
*@-7:18: Soon the knowledge of botany, zoology, biology, math, geometry, medicine, chemistry, optics, engineering, architecture, astronomy, pharmacology, Philosophy, anatomy and meteorology flooded into Europe
*@-7:45: James Burke enjoys a bottle of wine
*@-8:14: All the knowledge is thanks to Aristotle, who categorized everything
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Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 4
*@-0:10: Aristotle's logic led to synergism which, when combined with Ancient Greek and Ancient Arab knowledge, ended the Middle Ages
*@-1:26: At the end of the 12th Century in Bologna, Italy, the translation of ancient texts led to the institutionalization of knowledge
*@-1:40: James Burke is at The University of Bologna
*@-5:08: The Catholic Church was having problems with members being skeptical
*@-6:01: Peter Abelard caused problems for the Catholic Church by pointing out many Biblical Contradictions
*@-6:28: William of Conches and Thierry of Chartres took the Bible apart during the 12th Century and this was unthinkable
*@-7:21: Chartres Cathedral were architectural marvels of the time, complete with arches and stained glass windows
*@-9:39: By 1210 the Pope had banned Aristotle and Arab books, the students went on strike
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Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 5
*@-0:25: Theodoric of Freiberg experimented with rainbows in 1304 to find out what made colors
*@-1:20: Using a spherical flask filled with water, Theodoric of Freiberg could see four colours: Red, yellow, blue and green
*@-2:55: Theodric's theories on light radically changed how people thought
*@-3:40: In Western culture, change in is happening so rapidly it's getting increasingly difficult for the developing world to catch up
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The Day the Universe Changed Episode 2 Questions
What would you change on this university's website? 4 AnswersUmm. I didn't even spend time reviewing the architecture because I couldn't get past 1 point. The whole right side of the page is white in safari! 50% of colleg... read more
What colleges or universities, either 2 or 4 year colleges and universities or technical colleges or universities have multiple campuses? 7 AnswersGo to the source link you will get the link to corresponding college # Academy Canada # Acadia University # Alberta Vocational College - Calgary # Algonquin... read more
Have you watched any of James Burkes documentaries? 2 AnswersAbsolutely! I loved both Connections and The Day the Universe Changed. The episodes that stand out were one where he took a whack at a cow carcass with a claymo... read more
On the Change Maker game in Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day, what are the coin denominations? 1 Answerdollar = 100 pennies (100 cents) half-dollar = 50 cents quarter = 25 cents dime = 10 cents nickel = 5 cents read more
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