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Part of an anecdotal history on optics and the study of light. Extremely thorough treatment of the scientific evidence which led scientists to believe in the particle nature of light. Includes a short biographical sketch and discusses the work of Willdebrord Snell (1580-1626 CE).
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corpuscles, corpuscular theory, least time principle, particle theory, ray optics, wave-particle duality, wavelets, snell, bradley, descartes, fermat, hamilton, newton, newton's rings, optics highlights: optics, electromagnetic waves, quanta, willebrord snell, reflection, photons and particle theory of light
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)