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Categories: Obsolete theories in physics, Natural philosophy, Isaac Newton
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corpuscular theory  corpuscular theory of light  corpuscle theory of light
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(physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles WordNet 3.0
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(physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In optics, the corpuscular theory of light states that light is made up of small discrete particles called "corpuscles" which travel in a straight line with a finite velocity and possess impetus. Wikipedia
Developed by Isaac Newton in his Opticks, which proposed the existence of light particles which are now known as photons Wikipedia Disambiguation
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