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Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light and specifies the
laws of rectilinear propagation of light. The Rectilinear Propagation
of Light describes that Light travels in a Straight Line.
18th – 19th Century Thomas Young - Proof of the wave theory of light
In a shift of research from vision (trichromatic color vision and eye
adjustment mechanism) to optics, in 1807 he showed that when light
coming from a point light source is shined onto two pinholes, interference
fringes can be observed on a screen an appropriate distance away (Young’s
Experiment) and advocated his theory that light behaves like a wave. In the
field of elastic body mechanics, his name still remains as the fundamental
constant Young’s Modulus, amongst other achievements he was first to use
the term energy and introduced that concept.
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