Where To Stream The Day the Universe Changed Season 1 Episode 8
Fit to Rule Darwin's Revolution
- Aired May 7, 1985
- 60 Min
In the 1730s a Swedish botanist trudged through Arctic Lapland in an attempt to show that nature never changed. His journey was the first step in a trail that led through the Paris zoo, past an Oxford professor who ate mice and, among the shellfish under Mount Etna, to a new theory that proved the reverse: nature never stood still. The new theory finally broke the Church's power over science; it was seized on by the great political thinkers; and it gave us the modern world of constant change,...