The corpuscular model of light was given in 1637 by:
ADescartes
BHuygens
CFoucault
DMaxwell
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Descartes
1. The corpuscular model treats light as a stream of particles.
2. Descartes used it to derive the law of refraction.
3. He put it forward in 1637.
_Source: NCERT Class 12 Physics Part II, Chapter 10, Wave Optics._
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