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Corpuscular Theory of Light
Superseded · 1704
- Status
- Superseded
- Year
- 1704
Summary
Newton's competing account: light as a stream of particles. Dismissed for a century after Young's double slit, then partly vindicated by the photon — though not in any form Newton would recognise.
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