Main content

The EssayScience NotesEpisodes

Back up to: The Essay

  1. Wind

    5/5James Burke leads us via steam engines and iron coffins to the modern orchestra.

  2. Ivories

    4/5James Burke touches on pine trees, chintz, bowler hats – and ends up on the ivories.

  3. Impression

    3/5James Burke connects Italian electricity to Debussy via a baron's seances and your fridge.

  4. Romance

    2/5James Burke links planetary orbits, the teeny-weeny and fake Scottish literature.

  5. Enlighten

    1/5Broadcaster James Burke links organisms that might not exist to a freemason’s opera.