Light Fantastic
Series in which Professor Simon Schaffer explores man's fascination with light
Light Fantastic - Let There Be Light
Simon Schaffer's series exploring man's fascination with light begins by revealing the unwitting role religion played in our scientific understanding of light.
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Light Fantastic - Light, the Universe and Everything
Simon Schaffer investigates how puzzling studying light turned out to be and how it affected knowledge of science, art and the human mind.
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Light Fantastic - The Light of Reason
Simon Schaffer's series exploring man's fascination with light. He looks at how, from Galileo to Darwin, light changed our understanding of the universe.
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Light Fantastic - The Stuff of Light
In tracing the journey from light bulb to atomic bomb, Simon Schaffer reveals how the quest to understand what light really is had disturbing consequences.
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