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 second episode explores the link
between the development of practical tools that manipulate light and the
emergence of new ideas. The subject is examined through the work of
Tycho Brahe; Galileo; Vermeer; Robert Hooke; William Herschel; Ole
Rømer; Charles Darwin and Ernest Rutherford.
Brahe was granted
the island of Hven by Denmark's Frederick II. From here he observed a
comet in 1577. Tycho's measurements proved that the Church's traditional
view of the Universe must be wrong.
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