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300 BCE
Euclid wrote optica
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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 -
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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
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Fresnel wrote a memorial about light difractation