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Mark Steel Lectures: Series 1 to 3 Biography Documentary hosted by Mark Steel, published by BBC in 2003-2006 - English narration Information ------------------------------ Mark Steel Lectures: Series 1 to 3 Irreverent yet accurate, Mark Steele takes people who have made a mark in history (or at least are mentioned often enough that their names are familiar) and gives you the highlights of their lives in a way that makes you remember the important bits. If you are looking for fun and history at the same time, these lectures are worth your time and investment--still worth the investment if you are just looking for great laughs! 15) Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was the man responsible for the catchphrase I think therefore I am - Not quite as good as Am I bovvered or Im a Laydeeee perhaps, but infinitely better than Shut that Door. In many respects, Descartes was a bit of an oddity. Born into the lower ranks of the French nobility in 1596, he made it his business never to get up before noon, he smoked tobacco that was cut with dope and when hed done that, he laid down the blueprint for all modern day thinking on any given subject for the next 400 years. Whilst sitting in an oven. Yes, an oven. To appreciate the sheer genius of Descartes work, we need to look at it in context: He was establishing his pioneering ideas at a time when philosophical thinking wasnt really encouraged by the church, to such an extent that one philosopher, Vanini had his tongue cut out, was strangled and then burnt at the stake for daring to try and explain how miracles work. charts Descartes course through scientific history; his stint as a card shark in the dutch army, his invention of the little 2, the symbol used to signify a squared number, his invention of the x and y used in algebra. Not to mention his numerous biological experiments that gave us first clear idea that the senses were linked to the central nervous system and his seminal work, The Meditations in which he constructed a theory of the universe which instead of beginning with blind faith, insisted on the prominence of doubt as a starting point. Screenshots ------------------------------ Technical Specs ------------------------------ * Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4 * Video Bitrate: 1537 kbps * Video Resolution: 720 x 416 * Video Aspect Ratio: (16:9) * Frames Per Second: 25 * Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 * Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s MP3 48000 Hz) * Audio Streams: 2 * Audio Languages: English * RunTime Per Part: 30mins * Number Of Parts: 18 * Part Size: 349 MB * Source: PDTV * Encoded by Harry65 * Thanks to llambert Links ------------------------------ 1) Further Information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steel-------------------------------------Torrent downloaded from http://thepiratebay.se

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