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Also Known As visible spectrum • visible radiation • optical spectrum

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Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Study how Ptolemy tried to use deferents and epicycles to explain retrograde motion
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
Arago, François
François Arago
French physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Sir David Brewster
Scottish physicist
Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev
Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev
Russian physicist
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist
Malus, engraving by A. Tardieu after a painting
Étienne-Louis Malus
French physicist
Hendrik Anthony Kramers
Dutch physicist

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