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 projected white light through a prism onto a wall and ...

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 through a curved lens it ...

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours ... a process called dispersion. This experiment is recorded as first being carried out by Isaac Newton, after an outbreak of bubonic ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton ... white light, establishing rigid experimental proof in the face of intense criticism from his contemporaries. One of the byproducts of his experiments ...