“It has no justification in experiment exactly; it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had ...
until Isaac Newton solved it. In 1672, Newton published a seminal paper on light and color, in which he showed that white light is a mixture of all colors of the spectrum. When white light passes ...
White light is made of a spectrum of different colours ... This experiment is recorded as first being carried out by Isaac Newton, after an outbreak of bubonic plague led to Cambridge University ...