Simon Schaffer's series exploring man's fascination with light begins by revealing the unwitting role religion played in our scientific understanding of light. Show more

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. Show more

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.

Simon Schaffer investigates how puzzling studying light turned out to be and how it affected knowledge of science, art and the human mind. Show more