In 1670,Isaac Newton performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he:
A) proved mathematically that light could be described as oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
B) demonstrated that white light was made up of colors that could be split by a prism and that these colors were not produced by the glass through which the light passed.
C) showed that a prism through which light passed added a spectrum of colors to the light.
D) demonstrated the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtaining a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen that he ascribed to interference between the two beams.
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