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Discovery Science Stories: Series 7 Episodes

    Ibn al-Haytham: The Father of Modern Optics

    3/3 The Arabic scholar who showed how light and the human eye produce our sense of vision

    Kepler's Snowflake

    2/3 Philip Ball tells the story of Johannes Kepler and the six cornered snowflake.

    Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms

    1/3 Two thousand years ago Lucretius composed about atoms and the natural world