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Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons until the Renaissance. Only in 1628 did William Harvey theorize that blood circulates in the body; germs weren’t discovered until the nineteenth century. Since then, surgery and drugs have greatly reduced deaths and pain from accident and disease. Genetic research and biotechnology hold the promise of even greater advances in the twenty-first century. 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. 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. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.
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This company has an innovative idea in audio programs. Several series are available, each on a broad subject area. This one is from “Science and Discovery.” The topic has many writers, all from prestigious universities, one lead narrator and a cast of actors. The narrator does a superb job reading what amounts to lectures. To relieve the monotony of a single voice, a cast of different accents, genders and ages is introduced as part of the script. It really adds life. The production values and topics are excellent. Libraries, especially academic libraries late getting into the field of audiobooks, should take a look at these offerings. E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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