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AAAS Project 2061 recommends that all students learn more about the history and culture of science. This classic Hawkhill program has been completely updated for use in the 21st century and is available on both videotape and DVD.

The Soul of Science tells the story of science and society on all continents, stressing the great turning points in the Renaissance and in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Part 1 features the birth of science in power and wonder with special attention to ancient Ionian Greece.

Part 2 follows the rebirth of science in the Renaissance when men like Galileo, Copernicus and Isaac Newton forever changed the way we look at the world and the universe.

In Part 3 students watch the scientific vision expand in Europe and into North America. They see the Industrial revolution born in England's midlands and sit with Charles Darwin as he writes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

In Part 4 we move into the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century when scientists like Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Crick and Watson led the way to the profound changes we see in our world of today.

In Soul of Science keys to scientific literacy include:

Ionian Greece, Democritus, Anaximander, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Medieval science, Muslim science, Renaissance, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, trial of Galileo, Vesalius, Newton, scientific methods, 18th century science, industrial revolution, electricity, light, Edison, Luddites, Mendel, Darwin, Einstein, Curie, Rutherford, Bohr, Crick, Watson, ecology, social sciences, politics and science.

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