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Discovery Communications
100 greatest discoveries
Learn the details behind the one hundred most significant breakthroughs in the history of mankind. Take a journey through history and examine the discoveries, breakthroughs and eureka moments that have transformed all of our lives for the better.
Host Bill Nye travels the world, meeting eminent scientists in various fields, to explore and explain the principles behind the most significant developments in the history of mankind. Each of the 100 Greatest Discoveries, in eight different fields of knowledge, is examined both in terms of the principles and personalities involved.
Over 500 years of scientific advances are distilled and presented in this accessible, entertaining series to give you a good understanding of HOW many of science s toughest riddles were solved, WHO it was that solved them, and WHY these solutions are so significant.
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