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Light Fantastic (TV series)

Overview

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.

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Philosophers who discussed Light Fantastic (TV series)

• Empedocles

Related ideas

• Book of Optics
• Isaac Newton
• The Guardian
• René Descartes
• Roger Bacon
• University of Cambridge
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Galileo Galilei
• Thomas Edison
• Universe
• Joseph Priestley
• John Dalton
• Fatimid Caliphate
• Cairo
• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Euclid
• Empedocles
• Opus Majus

Place in the tradition

Part of Empedocles.

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