Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Professor Emerita in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Scholar at the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

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4 episodes

Covers topics in categories such as:

PhilosophyScienceHistory of science1st-century RomansHistory of technologySilver Age Latin writersAncient Roman geographersAncient occultistsPhilosophers of Roman ItalyApplied and interdisciplinary physicsAncient inventions, Greek inventionsAncient Greek scienceHistory of mathematicsArchaeoastronomyAncient Greek technologyHistoryAncient Greek geographersEpigrammatists of the Greek Anthology2nd-century RomansAncient Greek music theoristsClaudii2nd-century Greek philosophersAncient Roman encyclopedistsAncient Roman antiquariansAncient Roman scientists, People from Como, Plinii1st-century geographersOceanography, Physical geography

  1. The Antikythera Mechanism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical computer, one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology.

    14 November 2024

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    Also featuring: Mike Edmunds, Jo Marchant

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    HistoryAncient inventions, Greek inventionsAncient Greek scienceHistory of mathematicsArchaeoastronomyAncient Greek technologyHistory of scienceHistory of technology

  2. Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the last of the great Greek astronomers of antiquity, Ptolemy, and his influence on ancient and medieval astronomy.

    17 November 2011

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    Also featuring: Jim Bennett, Charles Burnett

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    PhilosophyAncient Roman geographersAncient Greek geographersEpigrammatists of the Greek Anthology2nd-century RomansAncient Greek music theorists1st-century RomansAncient occultistsClaudii2nd-century Greek philosophers

  3. Pliny's Natural History

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny the Elder's Natural History, a comprehensive and influential encyclopedia of the natural sciences written in the first century AD.

    8 July 2010

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    Also featuring: Serafina Cuomo, Aude Doody

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    ScienceAncient Roman encyclopedistsPhilosophers of Roman ItalyAncient Roman geographersSilver Age Latin writersAncient Roman antiquariansAncient Roman scientists, People from Como, Plinii1st-century Romans1st-century geographers

  4. Meteorology

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the fascinating and mystifying science of meteorology.

    6 March 2003

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    Also featuring: Vladimir Janković, Richard Hamblyn

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    ScienceApplied and interdisciplinary physicsOceanography, Physical geography