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    Light has played an essential role in human existence and our understanding of it has evolved over thousands of years. Early Greek scholars in the 300s BCE first began contemplating the nature of light, with many incorrect assumptions, but they started the process of inquiry. Ptolemy made improvements by conducting early studies of optics. Later, Alhazen conducted the first serious study of lenses to better understand vision and light entering the eye. Isaac Newton proved that white light is made up of a mixture of colors using a prism. Throughout history, scientists like Herschel, Ritter, Edison and Swan made discoveries about different wavelengths of light and methods of producing artificial light that expanded human knowledge of light's properties and role in the

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    Light has played an essential role in human existence and our understanding of it has evolved over thousands of years. Early Greek scholars in the 300s BCE first began contemplating the nature of light, with many incorrect assumptions, but they started the process of inquiry. Ptolemy made improvements by conducting early studies of optics. Later, Alhazen conducted the first serious study of lenses to better understand vision and light entering the eye. Isaac Newton proved that white light is made up of a mixture of colors using a prism. Throughout history, scientists like Herschel, Ritter, Edison and Swan made discoveries about different wavelengths of light and methods of producing artificial light that expanded human knowledge of light's properties and role in the

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    Consador Grade 8- Oxytocin

    VISIBILITY OF LIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND

    Light. Light is one of the things, one of the factors that is essential in our life. Of course, we
    won’t see anything, there won’t be color in our world if there is no light. Did you think that there
    was no light before? That light is man-made? Of course not! It has been here in our universe
    since the Big Bang and this is even older than us, humans!

    Light has a value in humanity, so throughout the years, we discover, little by little, what is light,
    what really light is. Ancient humans already wondered what the nature of light is. First, Greek
    scholars in 300 BCE started studying about optical phenomena to explain what vision, light and
    color is. Many of these are wrong asusmptions, but who are we to judge? They were the ones
    who started contemplating about the nature of light. Without them starting it, we aren’t the
    humans who have knowledge about light today. However, these assumptions were improved by
    Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer, who studied about different topics in Science. He wrote a book
    about optics that survived until today, which is admirable and it means that this book was helpful
    in our process of knowing what light really is.

    After years of advancements, Alhazan, an Arab scholar, conducted the very first serious study of
    lenses. His explanation is that he wanted to correct his vision and to explain that it is how the
    phenomenon of light comes into the eye, rather than the eye emitting the light rays. Another one
    is Sir Isaac Newton obtained a prism and set up it under the sun. He proved that white light was
    made up of color mixed up together. He was the first to understand the rainbow. I think that Sir
    Isaac really had the best contributions in modern Physics, and generally, Science. Without all of
    their contributions, we are still searching for answers like these.

    There are more examples of great scientists in line with the discovery of light. William Herschel
    in 1800, tried to measure the temperature of different colors in the spectrum. Who would’ve
    thought that what he discovered the highest temperature has no color! This is the first time in our
    history that we talked about invisible light. In the same year, Johann Ritter discovered the
    ultraviolet radiation. In 1879, Thomas Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan patent a cardon-threaded
    incandescent lamp that lasted for 40 hours. One of the latest, 2011, Philips win for the LED
    screw-in lamp equivalent to 60-W incandescent lamp for general use.

    There are still a lot of human discoveries regarding the nature of light. It is unbelievable how
    much we discovered, yet that’s just a short time, we still have a lot to discover like is light a
    particle or a wave? Or maybe, how we can conserve the light we get from our Sun? What if our
    main light source shuts down, can we have another one? There are still a lot of unanswered
    mystery and I think, that is what makes science very interesting. Let’s stay curious.

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