- In optics, the
corpuscular theory of
light states that
light is made up of
small discrete particles called "corpuscles" (little particles)
which travel...
- Corpuscularianism, also
known as
corpuscularism (from
Latin corpusculum 'little body', and -ism), is a set of
theories that
explain natural transformations...
- corn-cracker – the
nickname of a
Kentucky man;
pejorative corpuscular philosophy – the
philosophy which accounts for
physical phenomena by the
position and...
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variety of
different guises,
implied that
everything that
exists is
corpuscular,
Parmenides argued that the
first principle of
being was One, indivisible...
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Chemical Revolution, with his
mechanical corpuscular philosophy,
which in turn
relied heavily on the
alchemical corpuscular theory and
experimental method dating...
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Paradoxes 1666 –
Origin of
Forms and
Qualities according to the
Corpuscular Philosophy. (A
continuation of his work on the
spring of air
demonstrated that...
- has
attracted the most
controversy and criticism,
especially from
corpuscular philosophy and
quantum mechanics.
Sufficient reason. "There must be a sufficient...
- (Stanford
Encyclopedia of
Philosophy)
Gaukroger 1995, p. 228. John Schuster, Descartes-Agonistes: Physico-mathematics,
Method &
Corpuscular-Mechanism 1618–33...
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aether to have a
certain elasticity,
transmitting vibrations from the
corpuscular packets of
light as they
travel through. This
theory of luminiferous...
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investigations of light, had
rejected the wave
theory of
light and
developed his
corpuscular theory of
light according to
which light is
emitted from a
luminous body...
