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Zaccharias Janssen was a scientist who studied properties of light and invented one of the first compound microscopes in the late 1500s. Which property did Janssen most likely believe about light during the time of his invention?
Light bends around objects.
Light bounces off surfaces.
Light travels in a curved path.
Light is made up of waves.
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Light bounces off surfaces.
In Janssen’s time (late 1500s) optics was treated by geometrical-ray ideas: light was thought to travel in straight lines and to reflect (bounce) and refract at surfaces. The modern wave theory of light came much later.
In Janssen’s time (late 1500s) optics was treated by geometrical-ray ideas: light was thought to travel in straight lines and to reflect (bounce) and refract at surfaces. The modern wave theory of light came much later.
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