Cosmos · SEASON 1
Hiding in the Light
Episode 5 · 2014-04-06
- Documentary
Episode overview
The Ship of the Imagination travels back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brilliant physicist Ibn al-Haytham discovered the scientific method and first understood how we see, and how light travels. Later, William Herschel discovers the infrared and the signature hidden in the light of every star, eventually unlocking one of the keys to the cosmos.
46 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Standing Up in the Milky Way2014-03-09
2. Some of the Things that Molecules Do2014-03-16
3. When Knowledge Conquered Fear2014-03-23
4. A Sky Full of Ghosts2014-03-30
5. Hiding in the Light2014-04-06
6. Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still2014-04-13
7. The Clean Room2014-04-20
8. Sisters of the Sun2014-04-27
9. The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth2014-05-04
10. The Electric Boy2014-05-11
11. The Immortals2014-05-18
12. The World Set Free2014-06-01
13. Unafraid of the Dark2014-06-08
