“Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light ⟳ of the reflector fell full upon her.”

“Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light ⟳.”

“[Rural solar plant ⟳] schemes are of little help ⟳ to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light ⟳ to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look ⟳ for specks of light ⟳ in the villages.”

“When the studio light ⟳ is on, I am recording my evening show ⟳.”

“black light ⟳”

“It’s everywhere. At this moment, as you sit ⟳ quietly reading this book, you are awash in it. At work ⟳, it’s emanating from your electronic devices; step outside for lunch, and the sun bathes you in it. You may receive ⟳ an extra dose of it when you visit ⟳ your doctor, pass ⟳ through security at the airport, or drive ⟳ through city streets, but minuscule amounts of it are with you always. You cannot see ⟳, hear ⟳, smell ⟳, or feel ⟳ it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of it will kill ⟳ you, but without it you wouldn’t live ⟳ a year. “Invisible light ⟳” seems like ⟳ a contradiction. Like ⟳ Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound ⟳ of Silence,” it’s an oxymoron. We think ⟳ of light ⟳, by definition, as something seen, something that enables our seeing, illuminating the darkness. Unlike dogs, who sniff in order ⟳ to “get ⟳” what an object is, we depend ⟳ on vision above all our other senses. We rely ⟳ on light ⟳ to tell ⟳ us about our surroundings. But just as there are frequencies of sound ⟳ audible to other animals that we cannot hear ⟳, there is a whole world of light ⟳ outside our range of vision, a world that is humming with activity. Though we rarely think ⟳ about this invisible world, our way of life depends on it. It’s because of invisible light ⟳ that you can do things such as send ⟳ a text message, use ⟳ GPS to find ⟳ your way to a friend’s house, listen ⟳ to the radio, or microwave a frozen pizza. Invisible light ⟳ shows us things we would never otherwise see ⟳, including our own ⟳ skeletons and brains and the history of our universe. I was reminded of just how much we rely ⟳ on invisible light ⟳, and how mysterious it remains to us, during a visit ⟳ from my sister and her family. It was a lazy summer afternoon, and we were sprawled across a few couches sharing a bowl of popcorn. My niece, her shoulders crimson after a day outdoors, was chatting on her cell phone, holding up a promising finger to her mother, who was scolding her for not using sunscreen. My brother-in-law, meanwhile, was asking my opinion on an article he’d read ⟳ proposing that Wi-Fi be banned in schools because of its dangers. We were all depending on invisible light ⟳ (for the microwave popcorn, the cell-phone service) while being concerned that it might harm ⟳ us (sunburn ⟳, mysterious Wi-Fi health threats) and confused about what to do to protect ⟳ ourselves. We need ⟳ it, and it surrounds us, yet we remain ⟳ uneasy about living with invisible light ⟳, partly because we fear what is unknown. After all, most of us don’t know ⟳ much about “all the light ⟳ we cannot see ⟳.” This book aims to change ⟳ that. My hope ⟳ is to expose the hidden side of the spectrum, to make ⟳ the invisible (at least temporarily) visible and vivid to you.”

“Put ⟳ that light ⟳ out!”

“And the light ⟳ ſhineth in darkneſſe, and the darkneſſe compꝛehended it not.”

“He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have ⟳ their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.”

“We turned off all the lights and went to sleep ⟳.”

“The ceiling lights were off, but I knew the narrow light ⟳ spilling from the lamp on my bureau would be enough for her to see ⟳ the pale red marks on my chest, which had been fading for so long they had gone back to being shiny again.”

“To get ⟳ to our house, turn ⟳ right at the third light ⟳.”

“Can you throw ⟳ any light ⟳ on this problem?”

“He shall never know ⟳ / That I had any light ⟳ of this from thee.”

“Greatly interested in these differences—some of them so great that they led me to seek ⟳ exchanges of light ⟳ with Englishmen—I looked for some work ⟳ that would describe ⟳ and account for them with a show ⟳ of completeness, and perhaps depict the process ⟳ of their origin.”

“Now these notions are twofold, actions or habits[…], which are durable lights and notions, which we may use ⟳ when we will.”

“"Well, there's her statement of her case, and according to her lights, it's a just one. She's got a slum-bred mind ⟳."”

“Picasso was one of the leading lights of the cubist movement.”

“Joan of Arc, a light ⟳ of ancient France”

“I'm really seeing you in a different light ⟳ today.”

“Magoon's governorship in Cuba was viewed in a negative light ⟳ by many Cuban historians for years thereafter.”

“Frequent consideration of a thing […] shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.”

“Thy ſteddy Temper, Portius, Can look ⟳ on Guilt, Rebellion, Fraud, and Cæſar, In the calm Lights of mild Philoſophy; […]”

“Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want ⟳ Jones back. When it was put ⟳ to them in this light ⟳, they had no more to say ⟳.”

“"There will, I expect ⟳, be many such - possibly whole cities in flames - when we consider ⟳ how many folk may have ⟳ dropped with lights in their hands."”

“Hey, buddy, you got a light ⟳?”

“a Bengal light ⟳”

“This facade has eight south-facing lights.”

“The average length of a light ⟳ on a 15×15 grid is 7 or 8.”

“The duke yet would have ⟳ dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring ⟳ them to light ⟳.”

“My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light ⟳ of mine eies, it also is gone from me.”

“He seemed to find ⟳ his way without his eyes; / For out o'door he went without their helps, / And, to the last ⟳, bended their light ⟳ on me.”

“We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light ⟳ for me.”

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