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Quotation from Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens

“It is inconceivable to doubt that light consists in the motion of some sort of matter.”

Christiaan Huygens

Treatise on Light, Chapter I, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912)

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The opening premise of the argument, supported by light's origin in fire and its power to burn.

Citation: "It is inconceivable to doubt that light consists in the motion of some sort of matter." — Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light, Chapter I, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912). (id huygens-treatise-on-light-q3)

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