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Isaac Newton in his 1670's lectures on optics and later in his 1704 publicationOpticks, he described light as composed of in his corpuscular hypothesisarguing that the perfectly straight lines of reflection demonstrated this nature.linesparticlesphotonswaves

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The perfectly straight lines of reflection demonstrated in the nature is due to particle nature of the light. Therefore, Newton described that the light consists of 'particles' which means second option is correct.

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