When Knowledge Conquered Fear

How not to be enchanted by the brilliance of this episode? Through it we notice the various actors involved in the history of the creation of primary laws for scientific consolidation.

Nowadays, we usually elect several members as activators of the "new way of doing science", but in this episode we see that there were many other actors.

The narrative is well constructed, the scenes are beautiful! And, there's no way not to be enchanted by those final 40 seconds. Neil takes a risk and hits the nail on the head when he proposes bringing the past and the future together.

Watch this episode and invite your friends to travel with you.

One my favorite documentary, hosted by the charismatic Neil deGrasse Tyson, this turn explaining how the Halley's ice comet spreading fear on the ancient mankind, when it crossed the sky were a sign of hard times to come, plague, death and others countless setbacks, just ending when Edmund Halley exposed his theory that such comet has an elliptical orbit each 76 years, haunting the academicians on the entire world.

Interesting to me that I've never ever imagined that Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton were contemporaneous astronomers, the episode focuses in both life story, Halley dropped out his studies at Oxford University to strengthen and developing the mapping stars at Saint Helen, whom the European navigators could position themselves by Halley's star chat anywhere on the sea.

Isaac Newton had a troublesome infancy, worst he was deemed a bad student, graduate at Cambridge University, was too much recluse and nasty temper, deep connoisseur of ancient studies of the alchemy and biblical chronology, however was in mathematic fields that gained worldwide notoriety with his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica whereby came to the light just for an invaluable assistance of Halley that sponsored its printings.

Meanwhile Halley often goes in London's Coffee to a chatting with his fellows members of Royal Society, among them Robert Hooke who claimed that the all planets that orbited the sun were elliptical, hence Halley demands mathematic proves at once, something that Hooke never did, also Newton has some niggle concerning over Hooke, he'd rather work alone far away from those morons of Royal Society.

Halley was a closest friend of Newton and asking about the elliptical orbit, thus Newton said that had a mathematic prove already assembled, although he did not find on that moment, Halley thought that was one deceiver, therefore a couple days later he received at his house all papers containing an extensive mathematic studies, restating the Kleper's theory, later Newton was elect as president of Royal Society burning the Hooke's portrait.

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First watch: 2021 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 9

Well, I know many people rate this episode high but for me, it's so complicated. This episode made me feel bad about comet. Although at the end of this episode, I love that moment when they told about two.galaxies dancing with each other. It's so fascinating scene with the music. But from the start I expected more feeling I felt at the first episode. I'm disappointed.

Best episode of serie i have ever seen . So insiparing and the whole thing is riveting.