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What is light? Is it a particle or a wave? This book studies the eighteenth-century origins and early phases of this key debate in optics. This is a revised translation of a book published in Dutch in 1986. Research, both from the author and by others, has been taken into account.Hakfoort, Casper is the author of 'Optics in the Age of Euler Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521035071 and ISBN 0521035074.
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