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21/01/2009 GMT
Roland Pease explores light's continuing role in the endless frontier of scientific progress.
1609 was the year science changed, when Galileo learned how to control light with near-perfect lenses. His telescope gave the world an entirely new view of the solar system, and the cosmos, and was the first step by which we managed to survey the universe, and with microscopes probe the stuff were made of.
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