- 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 the
Latin corpusculum meaning "little body"), is a set of
theories that
explain natural transformations...
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produce a
convincing argument in
favor of the wave
theory,
helping to
overturn Newton's
corpuscular theory.[dubious – discuss] By the year 1821,
Fresnel was...
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experimental investigations of light, had
rejected the wave
theory of
light and
developed his
corpuscular theory of
light according to
which light is
emitted from...
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measured starlight deflections twice those predicted by
Newtonian corpuscular theory, in
accordance with the
predictions of
general relativity. Although...
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almost unanimous acceptance of the wave
theory of light,
excluding any
remnant of Newton's
corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s
until the end of the...
- that time, the
Newtonian theory of
gravitation and the so-called
corpuscular theory of
light were dominant. In
these theories, if the
escape velocity of...
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motion of
material corpuscles.
These views extended to
Isaac Newton's
corpuscular theory of light, and
would be
adopted by John
Locke and
other the 18th-century...
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credited with
establishing Christiaan Huygens' wave
theory of light, in
contrast to the
corpuscular theory of
Isaac Newton. Young's work was
subsequently supported...
- in
Henry M.
Leicester (ed.),
Mikhail Vasil'evich
Lomonosov on the
Corpuscular Theory, Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, pp. 224–233 ****n,
Basil (2003)...
