Question

The work of _____ on light was not widely regarded at the time because it was the opposite of what Newton (who was already wildly famous) had proposed.

Answer 1

Answer:

Christiaan Huygens

Explanation:

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch physicist with many credits and inventions some of which is the pendulum clock and production of many telescopes. He is also credited as the father of theoretical physics being the first to make use of formula in physics. His wave theory of light was controversially not widely regarded because of Isaac Newton's earlier theory on corpuscular theory of light.

He published his work on the wave theory of light in the book called Treatise on Light in 1690 which was then seen as the opposite of what Newton (who was already wildly famous) had proposed.