This might be a good place to plug the TV series Cosmos, on National Geographic Channel and Fox. It's a remake of the Carl Sagan series, and it's full of science and history. Narrated by the Director of the Hayden Planetarium, it focuses on the giants of physics and astronomy, across cultures.
Edit - it puts humans in the context of the cosmos. In the episode I saw last night, it was pointed out that every civilization will be the center of its universe, literally.
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