corpuscular in A Sentence

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    In 1704 Newton wrote Opticks, in which he expounded his Corpuscular theory of light.

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    His idea was greeted with a certain amount of skepticism because it contradicted Newton's Corpuscular theory.

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    The ultimate source of Newton's conviction that light is Corpuscular was his recognition that individual rays of light have immutable properties;

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    In the 18th century Newton's Corpuscular theory was held to be true; only after Young's well-known slit experiment in 1803 were most scientists persuaded to believe Huygens's theory.

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    However, Isaac Newton, who did many 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 a luminous body in the form of tiny particles.

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