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The first to recognise that light traveled in a straight line were the Greeks, Euclid and Hero. The Arab, Alhazen was aware about the year 1000. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was aware as was Isaac Newton in 1666. These theories became accepted in Great Britain as well as parts of Europe

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