Newton and Nightingale
Streaming Video - 2010
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Isaac Newton's ideas transformed our knowledge of what we see and how we see, and the prism and its refracted colors became a captivating image. One-hundred years later, Florence Nightingale's pioneering Rose Diagram was a catalyst in the creation of better and cleaner hospitals that would save thousands of lives
Challenging Perceptions (2:44)
Prism Experiments (1:31)
Light Spectrum Discovery (2:58)
Investigating Light (3:16)
Recreating a Prism Experiment (3:03)
Challenging Light Property Convention (2:43)
Revolutionizing Optics Science (2:07)
Refraction in Popular Culture (2:11)
Understanding Color Perception (3:37)
Prism Diagram Legacy (1:33)
Rose Diagram Introduction (1:16)
Representing Casualties (3:18)
Crimean War Field Hospital (4:02)
Improving War Survival Rates (1:17)
Hospital Sanitation Campaign (1:33)
Designing the Rose Diagram (4:41)
Epidemiology Message (3:36)
Achieving Medical Reform (2:03)
Credits: Newton and Nightingale: Beauty of Diagrams (0:32)
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PUBLISHED
BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2010
Year Published: 2010
Format: Streaming Video
SUBJECTS
Charts, diagrams, etc
History
Geometrical drawing
Scientific illustration