*Astrodynamics in Photogravitational Field of the Sun: Space Flights with a Solar Sail DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102005*

reported this in Lausanne (1899), and later more fully at the International Congress of Physicists in Paris (1900). The results were published in 1901. in Leipzig in "Annalen der Physik" in the article "Experimental investigation of light pressure."

It is important to note that the most consistent and logically grounded explanation of the phenomenon of light pressure was given only within the framework of quantum theory, on the basis of corpuscular concepts of electromagnetic radiation. It is here that it is possible to obtain an explicit analytical expression for the force of light pressure acting on a particle of a comet's tail, relying on a number of basic principles and relations of quantum theory.
