Local Heroes (1995)
Episode 5
S5 • E5 Jun 12, 2000
Adam Hart-Davis sets his sights further afield with a trip to Italy, where he ascends the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a bid to reproduce Galileo's groundbreaking demonstration of gravity, visits Padua to celebrate some of the anatomical breakthroughs made by Vesalius and looks at the man who invented the rules of perspective, Filippo Brunelleschi.
