This series of cassettes on Science & Discovery recreates one of history's most successful journeys -- 4,000 years of scientific efforts to better understand the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom of accepted practices; these are the stories of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress.
Edwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates. Mr. Newman tells the story of science and discovery in his distinctively clear and direct style.