Documentaries Tagged “connections”
Connections: Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
Connections: Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
Yesterday, Tomorrow and You. A bit of a recap: change causes more change. Start with the plow, you get craftsmen, civilization, irrigation, pottery and writing, mathematics, a calendar to predict floods, empires, and a modern world where change happens so rapidly you can’t keep up.
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change ...
Connections: Countdown
Connections: Countdown
Countdown connects the invention of the movie projector to improvements in castle fortifications caused by the invention and use of the cannon.
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one can...
Connections: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Connections: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Eat, Drink and Be Merry begins with plastic, the plastic credit card and the concept of credit then leaps back in time to to the Dukes of Burgundy, which was the first state to use credit.
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of his...
Connections: The Long Chain
Connections: The Long Chain
The Long Chain traces the invention of the Fluyt freighter in Holland in the 1500s. Voyages were insured by Edward Lloyd (Lloyd’s of London) if the ships hulls were covered in pitch and tar which came from the colonies until the American Revolution in 1776.
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the seri...
Connections: Thunder in the Skies
Connections: Thunder in the Skies
Thunder in the Skies implicates the Little Ice Age (ca. 1250-1300 AD) in the invention of the chimney, as well as knitting, buttons, wainscoting, wall tapestries, wall plastering, glass windows, and the practice of privacy for sleeping and sex.
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the series) that reje...
Connections: The Wheel of Fortune
Connections: The Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune traces astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts from Baghdad’s founder, Caliph Al-Mansur, via the Muslim monastery/medical school at Gundeshapur, to the medieval Church’s need for alarm clocks (the water horologium and the verge and foliot clock).
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (th...