Introduction Part I: History Chapter 1: Who Invented the Black Light? Chapter 2: Revolutionary Optics-Jean-Paul Marat Chapter 3: Globulism Chapter 4: Acoustic Mirrors Chapter 5: Friedrich Richard Ulbricht's Kugelphotometer Chapter 6: The Monocle Chapter 7: Fringe Science Chapter 8: Light-as a Feather Chapter 9: Lacemaker's Lamps Chapter 10: Thoreau's Rainbow Chapter 11: The Well-Tempered Spectrometer Chapter 12: Sacred Sun Chapter 13: Fiat Lux! Chapter 14: Not Worth the Candle Chapter 15: Why Are Candle Flames Yellow? Part II: Weird Science Chapter 16: Brown Chapter 17: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Light Chapter 18: Deck Prisms and Vault Lights Chapter 19: Forty-Four Fewer Shades of Gray Chapter 20: Barrel and Pincushion Chapter 21: Preppy Physics Chapter 22: The Sandbow Chapter 23: Mistbow versus Glory Chapter 24: Edible Optics Chapter 25: Thoughtographs and the Stanhope Lens Chapter 26: The Best Disinfectant Chapter 27: Walter Darcy Ryan and His Electric Scintillator Chapter 28: The Trilobite's Eye Chapter 29: Infinitely Distant Part III: Pop Culture Chapter 30: I Was a Teenage Optical Engineer Chapter 31: Killing Vampires Efficiently with Ultraviolet Light Chapter 32: The Endless Corridor Chapter 33: The Great 19th-Century Green Spectacle Craze Chapter 34: Tanagra Theater and the Fishbowl Mermaid Chapter 35: The Secrets of X-Ray Spex Chapter 36: Fluorescent Paint before Day-Glo Chapter 37: The First 3D Movies Chapter 38: Perspective Machines, Zograscopes, Megalethoscopes, and Boites d'Optiques Chapter 39: The Claude Lorrain Mirror Chapter 40: How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap! Part II: Handheld Ray Guns Afterword Index.