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History

In his first memoir, Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) responded to a view he extracted from a French translation of Isaac Newton 's Optics. He says that Newton imagined particles of light traversing space uninhibited by the caloric medium filling it, and refutes this view (never actually held by Newton) by saying that a black body under illumination would increase indefinitely in heat.