A personal view by J. Bronowski in 13 programmes
10: World within World
To see the world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower;
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
(WILLIAM BLAKE )
From the echoing vaults of a great Polish salt-mine DR BRONOWSKI embarks on the most fantastic journey of the 20th century, to the hidden world inside the atom. He tells the story of the men and ideas that gave concrete expression to the invisible, intangible structure that lies beneath all matter. The sunny quiet of Niels Bohr 's garden, the glamour of great reactors and the silence of a Vienna cemetery are stopping points on the journey that ends in the fires of a neutron star, deep in space.
It's a joy to have a series that conveys the elegance of theory, the precision of experiment and the craftsmanship of application in the scientific enterprise, along with the wonder, (NEW YORK TIMES)
Producer DICK GILLlNG
Series editor ADRIAN MALONE
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