Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

400 years of the telescope [videorecording] : a journey of science, technology and thought / PBS ; An Interstellar Studios production ; executive producers, Dan Koehler and Kris Koenig ; produced and directed by Kris Koenig ; writers, Donald Goldsmith, Kris Koenig and Albert Van Helden ; director, Kris Koenig.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2009, 2008.

Description:

1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"The film features interviews with leading astrophysicists and cosmologists from the world's renowned universities and observatories, who explain concepts ranging from Galileo's act of revealing the cosmos with a simple telescope, to the latest discoveries in space, including startling new ideas about life on other planets and dark energy - a mysterious vacuum energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe." - Container.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.

Telescopes.

Space telescopes.

Discoveries in science.

Cosmology.

Astronomy.

Astronomical observatories.

Science television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Television programs.

Other Author:

Koenig, Kris.

Goldsmith, Donald.

Van Helden, Albert.

Tyson, Neil deGrasse.

Slater, Mark.

Pereira, Frank L.

London Symphony Orchestra.

Interstellar Studios.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

PBS Home Video.

Other Title:

Four-hundred years of the telescope.

Journey of science, technology and thought.

Notes:

Originally broadcast on PBS in 2008.

Director of photography, Scott Stender ; astrophotographer, Kris Koenig ; director of animation, Frank L. Pereira ; editor, Kimberly Generous White ; music composed by Mark Slater and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Narrator, Neil DeGrasse Tyson ; Galileo voices, Stefano Lecci, Francesca Gianni.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (enhanced for 16:9 televisions); Dolby Digital stereo.

Includes limited public performance rights, whereby this video may be shown in a classroom, screened by a public group that is not charged for admission, or transmitted on a closed-circuit system within a building or a single campus.

Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

ISBN:

0793670489

9780793670482

Publisher Number:

FYET601

Other Number:

317890000

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

240881

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 681.4123 Four hun

Medium:

[videorecording]