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Why Science Works (1957)
About this film
A rocket plane stands poised on its landing platform. Then, with all the planned efficiency of science, it thrusts upward toward the stratosphere. Behind it falls away a world where political and social affairs display all the human failings. Small wonder there is good cause to ask an expert why science works. Professor Le Corbeiller suggests an answer in an inspection of the methods and cold judgment of science in the laboratory and their application to technology. He demonstrates with a number of pointer readings and a few simple equations that "science is an extraordinary, unique domain of human activity in which we bring together the advantages of unbounded imagination and the power of reason." (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Science, Scientific method, History of science, Philosophy of science, Experimentation, Scientific theory, Laws of nature, Physics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Boyle's Law, Gas laws, Francis Bacon, John Stuart Mill, Empirical observation, Laboratory research, Physical quantities, Robert Boyle, Stoichiometry, Logic, Science education, Scientific discovery, Gases, Research methodology, 1950s science
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