James Burke's 1978 BBC documentary series — each episode tracing unexpected historical connections between events, inventions, and ideas across centuries — one of the most influential science history documentaries ever made.
Creates the non-linear model of science history — Burke's argument that inventions and ideas emerge from unexpected intersections (not linear progress) anticipates network thinking and complex systems thinking decades before those frameworks were popularized.
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