A Glorious system of things

"Peter Littlefield, an instructor in natural philosophy, comes to Williamsburg, Va. in 1775 to give a series of lectures on astronomy, electricity and pneumatics."@en
"Peter Littlefield, an instructor in natural philosophy, comes to Williamsburg, Va. in 1775 to give a series of lectures on astronomy, electricity and pneumatics."
"The science of a glorious system of things: an extraction of all the science experiments from the docudrama into a single presentation for classroom use."
"Set entirely in period, this film shows modern audiences their colonial counterparts' response to the wonders of science--the power of electricity, the properties of vacuum, and, for some, their first enlightenment about the universe through astronomy."@en
"A docu-drama that unveils the scientific mysteries of the eighteenth century set in Williamsburg, Virginia."@en