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1. Christiaan Huygens

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   Optics and the Nature of Light
   Huygens is perhaps most famous in the history of physics for his advocacy of the wave theory of light. While Isaac Newton argued forcefully for the corpuscular nature of light, Huygens developed a detailed geometrical theory describing how light propagates. His principal work on this subject, Traité de la lumière (Treatise on Light), published in 1690, introduced the Huygens–Fresnel principle. This principle states that every point on a wavefront may be considered a source of secondary spherica…