Connections

Season 2 Episode 4: Whodunit?

This episode starts with a billiard ball and ends with a billiard ball. Along the way, Burke examines Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica, how mining supported war, the role of money, the Spanish Armada, large ships, problems posed by a wood shortage, glass making, coal, plate glass, mirrors, the sextant, the discovery of granite, and seashells in the mountains, which enabled a new view of the age of the earth, and Darwin's theory of evolution, Francis Galton's Eugenics, and the forensic use of fingerprints.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

3

Episodes:

40

Cast:

James Burke

Quality:

HD

Duration:

22 min

First Air:

1978

Rating:

8.2