ABSTRACT
Isaac Newton was able to provide a simple explanation for some known experimental facts concerning the nature of light, specifically, the laws of reflection and refraction. Throughout history, humankind has been fascinated with the properties and behaviour of light. Light from the sun served as a catalyst in the formation of life on Earth. Light is widely understood to be one part of a much larger electromagnetic spectrum. Photons, the smallest resolvable quanta of light, were initially described using particle theory; however, a wave model has since been widely adopted. In the 17th century, light was considered to be stream of particles that were emitted by a light source. Most scientists accepted Newton’s particle theory of light. In 1867, when James C. Maxwell published the first extensive account of his Electromagnetic Theory, the frequency band was only known to extend from the infrared, across the visible light, to the ultraviolet.
