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Hidden Structure, The

• 1974 ----- color ----- 51 min ----- vhs
• (Ascent of Man, The series, Part 4) Chemistry--"The great transformation that helped to make our civilization was the use of fire to disclose a wholly new class of materials, the metals." Dr. Bronowski traces the beginnings of chemistry in the discovery and use of copper, bronze and gold. Presents Shang bronzes; a Japanese samurai sword, product of a process merging fire, ritual and chemistry; and gold artifacts from many cultures which reflect the development of chemistry from its beginnings to Dalton's atomic theory and our knowledge of the elements. Profiles Swiss physician/alchemist Paracelsus and the English scientist Joseph Priestly discoverer of the element that was later named oxygen.
• Topics: (Art: History, Chemistry)

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