The Perception Of Life

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The Perception Of Life
NR 30 minDocumentary
An extraordinarily beautiful and simple science film about the history of biological ideas that shows how they expanded as technology improved Filmed in museums and in the Cambridge University labs where Whitehead had been a student THE PERCEPTION OF LIFE was filmed through microscopes used by scientists from the 17th to the 20th centuries including the electron microscope in the MRC unit where Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA
StarringStephen Toulmin
DirectorsPeter WhiteheadJune Goodfield
WriterJune Goodfield

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas