# Connections 5 -- the wheel of Fortune

Title from data sheet

Also issued as videorecording

Directors, Mick Jackson, David Kennard; writer, James Burke

Host James Burke traces the connection between astrology, ancient Greek medical manuscripts, the need for precise measuring devices, and the invention of such things as the telescope, forged steel, and interchangeable machine parts

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1979
- Runtime: 28 min
- By: Burke, James, 1936-, British Broadcasting Corporation, Time-Life Films
- Genres: Education, Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/connections5theweeloffortune)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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