A personal view by J. Bronowski in 13 programmes
5 : Music of the Spheres
Mathematics is a way of describing the world that we see, hear and touch. In the olive groves of Samos, DR BRONOWSKI gives his own novel proof of Pythagoras's famous theorem and traces the spread of Greek ideas through the bustling bazaars of the Islamic empire to the fabulous courts of Moorish Spatn andRenaissance Europe. The programme looks at the interlocking of numbers and nature in the descriptions of musical harmony, early astronomy and perspective in paintings.
Producer DICK GILLING Editor ADRIAN MALONE
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