If light is a wave, what does it look like? How does it work? Some far-fetched ideas were put to the mathematical and experimental test in the early 1800s by Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who ended up proving that light was like nothing the science community had seen before in the natural world!

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel - Painting By Ambroise Tardieu (1788-1841) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Thomas Young - Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Academy of Sciences - Painting by Testelin Henri (1616-1695)[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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