The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914

Video and Podcast Links

 

“Ship’s chronometer from HMS Beagle”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/u6Qnc25jQ5OIO-X92mZz6Q

This 15 minute podcast discusses the development of Greenwich Mean Time, and Darwin’s journey to the Galapagos Islands. Download to Listen to the Podcast.


Biography of Charles Darwin
https://www.biography.com/scientist/charles-darwin

A short biographical video about Charles Darwin, whose work The Origin of Species introduced the theory of evolution.

 

Web Links

 

Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

This scholarly biography of Friedrich Nietzsche by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a useful resource for a bibliography of his works and has links to related websites.


History of Judaism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/history_1.shtml

BBC Website on the history of Judaism.

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