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Light Fantastic — Season 1
BBC Four Ended
4 Episodes · Premiered August 7, 2006 · Ended August 10, 2006
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Episodes
The unwitting role religion played in our scientific understanding of light's properties.
Simon Schaffer looks at how light changed man's understanding of the universe.
How the quest to understand what light really is had disturbing consequences.
How studying light affected knowledge of science, art and the human mind.
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