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Who gave the corpuscular model of light in 1637 and derived Snell's law?
AIsaac Newton
BRene Descartes
CChristiaan Huygens
DAugustin Fresnel
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Rene Descartes
Descartes put forward the particle picture in 1637, and Newton later developed it in his book Opticks.
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