With Young's experiment it was quite obvious that light behaved as a wave.
With huygens explaination of light propagating as wave already explained phenomena like refraction and diffraction .
Newton's idea of light being corpuscular however failed to explain anything beyond linear propagating light Rays.
But since newton had a huge reputation as a scientist,most of the scientific community decided to stick with his idea for a long time
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Newtons idea also describes what you measure when you throw individual photons at a detector. They deposit their energy in one single well defined point.
What I mean to say is Newton's idea of corpuscular light had very less application to the whole of light phenomena.
However because of his reputation as a great scientist, the majority scientific community sticked to his idea for like a century.
The wave nature idea however at the very same time in history explained lot more than the corpuscular theory
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