“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 ...

Isaac Newton was one ... and René Descartes. Newton began to question the environment around him, including the nature of matter, light, and color. At the same time, to better understand the ...