Jacob Bronowski discovers the origins of science in the interaction of hand and brain.

'There is a great intellectual leap forward when man splits a piece of stone, a piece of wood, and lays bare in it the print that nature put there before he split it.'

The programme takes architecture as the model for science, from the Inca cities in the high Andes to the Roman aqueducts in Spain, from the great cathedrals of medieval France to modern Los Angeles, as man uncovers the laws of nature in stone. Show less