Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering Gulliver's travels – Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the industrial revolution (1968) Philip Morrison asks what our technology would look like if we were the size of men in Gulliver's voyages? Gulliver's travels – Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the industrial revolution (1968) Read more
Video Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Gulliver's travels – A prodigious leap? (1968) Philip Morrison studies the walking, running, floating, and swimming, by large animals and small, and in man-made vehicles of Gulliver's travels – A prodigious leap? (1968) Read more
Video Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Gulliver's travels – Meat and drink sufficient for 1728 Lilliputians (1968) Could Gulliver have eaten the food of 1728 Lilliputians? Philip Morrison explores big and small systems, using mice, men and Gulliver's travels – Meat and drink sufficient for 1728 Lilliputians (1968) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths Physics Gulliver's travels – The world of captain Gulliver (1968) In his first CHRISTMAS LECTURE from 1968, Philip Morrison looks at the arithmetic of large and small numbers, the geometry of Gulliver's travels – The world of captain Gulliver (1968) Read more
