Adam Hart-Davis sets his sights further afield with a trip to Italy, wheVe he ascends the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a bid to reproduce Galileo's groundbreaking demonstration of gravity, visits Padua to celebrate some of the anatomical breakthroughs made by Vesalius and looks at the man who invented the rules of perspective, Filippo Brunelleschi. Producer Paul Bader ; Executive producers Paul Bader. Mike Greenwood (S)
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