Abstract
With Young and Fresnel, the beginning of the nineteenth century finally brought insight into the nature of light. The battle between the protagonists of corpuscular emission and of the wave theory was decided in favor of the latter. Spectral radiations could be defined by their wavelength, and puzzling phenomena like diffraction and the color of soap-bubbles could suddenly be integrated easily into one theory.
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1: Young, 1845, vol. I, p. 344.
2: Newton, 1704/1979, p. 124.
3: Young, 1802(a).
4: Helmholtz, 1924, vol. II, p. 143.
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Crone, R.A. (1999). The trichromatic theory. In: A History of Color. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0870-9_10
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