COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE OF CORPUSCULAR OPTICS
Stanislav Borisovich Bondarenko
Kursk State University, Kursk, Russia
Keywords: natural philosophy, corpuscular theory of light, optical experiments mathematical physics
Abstract
The article identifies and examines four main directions in the development of corpuscular optics: those of Democritus-Gassendi, Anaxagoras-Hobbes, Philolaus-Descartes and Newton. It provides an epistemological assessment of the cognitive capabilities of corpuscular theories of light.
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