Chemistry and the Enlightenment

Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalog nature's many basic elements. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. The Science and Discovery Series recreates one of history's most successful journeys--four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. New materials and potions stimulated visions of wealth and healing; soon, new theories of atomic structure and combustion laid the foundation for practical applications that blossomed into the Industrial Revolution

About the AuthorEdwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. Mr. Newman tells the story of science and discovery in his distinctively clear and direct style.. He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates

Newman tells the story of science and discovery in his distinctively clear and direct style.. Edwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. Mr. He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates