Week 15 - Explanations, Inventions & Investigations About Light and Vision

The behavior of light has fascinated people for such a long time. Another human fascination with technology soon combined with knowledge of light to give us some tools to extend our abilities. The microscope and the telescope are both based upon the basic properties of light. Of course their function is very different. The microscope letting us see things that are far too small for the human eye. The telescope lets us see things that are really too far away to see well. This section will examine these optical instruments and their effect on our work with light.