Famous Scientists and Their Beliefs

This Ray explores not only the amazing advances in science made by a few individuals, but the difficulties they had in spreading their knowledge at a time when the powerful established church (the Church of England in our country) held that their own particular translation of the Bible and their beliefs about the stars and planets could not and should not be questioned.

1. Darwin and Anning

2. Galileo and Copernicus

3. Herschel and Bell Burnell

4. The Doubleday brothers

5. Newton and Priestley

6. Hildegard og Bingen and Al-Zahrain

7. The Berners-Lee brothers