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Light Fantastic<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is the title of a television\u00a0documentary series\u00a0that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0on\u00a0BBC Four<\/a>. 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.”<\/p>\n

The material was presented by Cambridge\u00a0academic\u00a0Simon Schaffer<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let There Be Light<\/strong> Episode 1 of 4
Simon Schaffer’s series exploring man’s fascination with light begins by revealing the unwitting role religion played in our scientific understanding of light.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Light of Reason<\/strong> Episode 2 of 4
Simon Schaffer explores how, from Galileo<\/a> to Darwin<\/a>, light changed man’s understanding of the universe. Simple tools of light let us look deeper and deeper into the heavens, but the stars revealed a dangerous truth about creation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Stuff of Light<\/strong> Episode 3 of 4
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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Light, the Universe and Everything<\/strong>\u00a0Episode 4 of 4
Simon Schaffer investigates how puzzling studying light turned out to be and how it affected knowledge of science, art and the human mind.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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