The Day the Universe Changed — Season 1, Episode 5: Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens

Episode synopsis

Notes that investigators such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton evolved better explanations of natural phenomena than those of Aristotle. Highlights the theories that led to a new conception of how the universe works and of man’s place in it.

About The Day the Universe Changed

Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
• E2In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
• E3Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
• E4A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
• E6Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
• E7What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
• E8Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
• E9Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
• E10Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality