Or, what is the nature of light and how does it comes to our eyes?
According to Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) in his “Opticks” ( 1704 ) light is transmitted at a finite speed by the “Luminiferous Aether Wind” which is the common or universal medium of propagation. This aether wind was further hypothesized as an absolute and stationary “frame of reference” for the measurement of time, especially as James Clerk Maxwell’s ( 1831 – 1879 ) equations for electromagnetic radiation – including light – required it. [ aether: Latin: the upper rarified air reaching into the heavens; Greek: to glow, to burn ] The Luminiferous Aether was imagined by physicists since Isaac Newton as the invisible “vapor” or “gas aether” filling the universe and hence as the carrier of heat and light to our eyes, although we now understand by Maxwell’s equations that these are both a unified electromagnetic phenomena. Further, the “Corpuscular Theory of Light” promulgated by Isaac Newton set forth the idea that light is composed of small discreet particles or corpuscles. In this sens
