What the Tudors Did for Us
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Play S1 E1What the Tudors Did for Us is a 2002 BBC documentary series that examines the impact of the Tudor period on modern society.
Cast: Adam Hart-Davis
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Season 1
4 episodes
- 1. The Good LyfeNo synopsis available yet.CC23minOct 7, 2002
- 2. War MachyneAdam looks at the development of Tudor weapons of war, taking in unpleasant implements of torture, cryptography, and casts his own cannon out of pure iron and test fires it!CC23minOct 14, 2002
- 3. Seeyng the WorldeAmong many enduring Tudor inventions were the pencil, enabled by the discovery in Wales of what for the long time would be the only graphite pit in Britain, the telescope, perspective and oil paints, applied to create pictures of unprecedented realism using the camera obscura.CC23minSep 23, 2002
- 4. The Thinkynge RevolutionDuring this era there were the most striking transformations of our understanding of our place in the Universe. Adam explains how Tudor ides of astronomy were revolutionsed by the discovery of a "new star" or "nova" in 1572, and how the dubious practice of alchemy gradually gave place to chemistry, alongside the discovery of many new substances.CC23minSep 30, 2002
What the Tudors Did for Us
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What the Tudors Did for Us is a 2002 BBC documentary series that examines the impact of the Tudor period on modern society.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Caroline van den Brul
- Cast
- Adam Hart-Davis
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Audio languages
English
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