Newton's corpuscular Theory of light ?
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According to this theory light is composed of tiny particles emitted from a luminous object. These particles move slower in a rarer medium but faster in a denser medium; but the Focault's experiments proved the reverse, that is, the light moves slower in a denser medium and faster in rarer medium. Moreover, the Newton's corpuscular theory could not explain the phenomena like interference, diffraction and polarisa- tion. As a consequence the Newton's Corpuscular Theory was abandoned altogether.
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the corpuscular theory of light, arguably set forward by Descartes (1637) states that light is made up of small discrete particles called "corpuscles" (little particles) which travel in a straight line with a finite velocity and possess impetus. This was based on an alternate description of atomism of the time period. This theory cannot explain refraction, diffraction and interference...