• 2013
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Precision: The Measure of All Things

Summary Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement. View more details

  • 2013
  • 1h

Precision: The Measure of All Things

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Marcus du Sautoy Michael de Podesta Pete Loftus Nigel Fox

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8.2

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Jun 9, 2013

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Big Wave Productions

Summary Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Jun 9, 2013

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Big Wave Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jun 09, 2013
Time and Distance
Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores measurement by looking at the metre and the second.
Episode 2 • Jun 16, 2013
Mass and Moles
Deep underground in a vault beneath Paris lives the most important lump of metal in the world - Le Grand K. Created in the 19th century, it's the world's master kilogram me, the weight on which every other weight is based. But there is a problem with Le Grand K - it is losing weight. Marcus explores the history of this strange object and the astonishing modern day race to replace it.
Episode 3 • Jun 23, 2013
Light, Heat and Electricity
From lightning bolts and watt engines to electromagnetic waves and single electrons, Professor Marcus du Sautoy continues his journey into the world of measurement as he reveals how we came to measure and harness the power of heat, light and electricity. It's a journey that has involved the greatest minds in science and, today, is getting down to the very building blocks of atoms.
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