Sentences with phrase «corpuscular theory»

1) The corpuscular theory of light --(light travelling faster in a transparent fluid or solid than in vacuo).

At one point Fizeau's measurement of the velocity of light in water seemed a conclusive refutation of the corpuscular theory of light; but the latter returned, in a new form, in Einstein's theory of photons.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9