"This light is come" : myths of creation and first light

"The thing you call light" : early philosophers from Greece to China

:The highest bliss" : the millennium of divine radiance

"A glass like a glittering star" : Islam's Golden Age

"Bright is the noble edifice" : paradise in the Middle Ages

Chiaro e scuro : light and dark on canvas

"Investigate with me what light is" : the Scientific Revolution and the Century of Celestial Light

"In my darken'd chamber" : Isaac Newton and "Opticks"

"A wild and harmonized tune" : the Romantics and the light seductive

Undulations : particle vs. wave

Lumière : France's dazzling century

"Little globe of sunshine" : electricity conquers the night

c: Einstein and the quanta, particle, and wave

"Catching up with our dreams" : lasers and other everyday wonders.