Light

By Cl1ck
  • 300 BCE

    Euclid wrote optica

  • 55 BCE

    Lucretius wrote On the nature of the universe

    He wrote that "The light & heat of the sun; these are composed of minute atoms which, when they are shoved off, lose no time in shooting right across the interspace of air in the direction imparted by the shove."

  • Descartes published a theory of light reflectation

    He assumed, incorrectly, that light travelled faster in a denser medium than in a less dense medium.

  • The light theory of Pierre Gassendi is published

    He proposed that light was composed of particles
  • Period: to

    The wave theory

    In oposition to the corpuscular model some scientist worked in a theory about the composition of light that say the light was a was a wave.

  • Newton wrote Hypothesis of Light

    He stated that light was composed of corpuscles which were emitted in all directions from a source.

  • Augustine Fresnel wrote a drable about optical aberration

  • Fresnel wrote a memorial about light difractation

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