While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the
earth's exotic land and seas. Commerce and navigation exploded as mapmakers and bold explorers
built on each other's achievements; in the process, our very concept of the earth changed from a flat
surface to a sphere.

The Science and Discovery series recreates one of history's most successful journeysfour thousand
years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often
challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests
and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus,
Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.

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