550 BC with Adam Hart-Davis [30min]

Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the long history of science, when brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad, bad and dangerous thinking. Did Pythagoras really come up with the mathematical theorem that carries his name? How did Thales, the first of the philosophers, demonstrate the worth of science and learning with a little help from some olives? And how do you prove that air isn't nothing?