Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that
explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four.
The series comprised four programmes respectively titled: "Let There be
Light"; "The Light of Reason"; "The Stuff of Light"; and "Light, The
Universe and Everything." The material was presented by Cambridge
academic Simon Schaffer.
The first episode shows how the desire,
by Greek, Arab and Christian scholars to penetrate the divine nature of
light led to modern science's origins. The programme explores the
contributions of Empedocles; Euclid; Al Hazen; Roger Bacon; Descartes
and Isaac Newton.
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