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The Ancient Greece based origins of modern Western Civilization's primary value of individuality driven curiosity that drives it to question and explore reality.
S1 • E2
Introduction of the knowledge from captured Islamic Spanish libraries transforms the Europe's conception of knowledge and the fact that it can advance.
S1 • E3
The introduction of perspective techniques transforms Europe's use of art, architecture, geography and navigation among others with its revolutionary concept of remote positioning.
S1 • E4
The introduction of practical mass printing ends Europe's predominate reliance on memory and its related concepts of reality and authority.
S1 • E5
The Catholic Counter-Reformation inadvertently sparks the Scientific Revolution that begins to profoundly challenge Europe's concept of the universe and the authority of the Church.
S1 • E6
The rise of land enclosure and advances in engineering help transform the West's major economic philosophies.
S1 • E7
The advance of modern medicine and public health comes at the cost of the fields becoming depersonalized with their increasing use of statistics and microbiology.
S1 • E8
The introduction of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution undermines the concept of divine creation while providing a rationale for both capitalism and communism.
S1 • E9
As modern theoretical physics becomes more ambiguous in nature, the Western lay public increasingly confuses advances in engineering with pure science.
S1 • E10
James sums up his ideas about the effect of different worldviews on science by showing how different cultures approach it in their own way.
Self - Host
Judge
Preacher
William Buckland
Witch
John Den
Minister
Old Man
Kirk Elder
Will Falconer