02812cgm a2200481 4500 104768919 TxAuBib 20120606120000.0 090406s2009||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 9780793670482 0793670489 841887010498 FYET601 TxAuBib 400 years of the telescope [DVD Videorecording] : a journey of science, technology and thought / PBS ; An Interstellar Studios production. Journey of science, technology and thought. Four-hundred years of the telescope. [United States] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2009. 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. Region 1, widescreen (enhanced for 16:9 televisions); Dolby Digital stereo. Originally broadcast on PBS in 2008. 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 ; 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. "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. Not rated. DVD format. 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. 20120606. Closed-captioned. Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642. Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. Astronomy. Television programs. Telescopes. Space telescopes. Discoveries in science. Astronomical observatories. Cosmology. Science television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Documentary television programs. https://www.pbs.org/retired-site/