| Description |
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 guidebooks (22 cm) in 2 containers. |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: David J. Helfand, Columbia University. |
| Summary |
Examines how scientists know what they do about the past. These lectures cover an astonishing range of cases in which physics has helped to redefine history--in astronomy, archaeology, geology, climatology, art history, and other fields. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Vast reaches of time and space -- Fundamentally, what's the world made of? -- Energy in the atomic world -- The atomic basis of the senses -- Radioactivity: nature's imperturbable clock -- From detecting forgeries to the First Art -- Watching plaster dry-and dating it -- We are what we eat: the history of diet -- A plant is what it eats: tracing agriculture -- Tree rings: seasons of the past 12,000 years -- Ice cores: climate records for 800 millennia -- Ocean sediments reveal 5 million years. |
| Note |
For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Subject |
Physics -- Videodiscs.
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Physics -- Study and teaching -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Genre |
Educational films.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598035452 |
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9781598035452 |
| Music No. |
1252 Teaching Company |
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