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- Sir Isaac Newton was one of the first to understand the modern relationship between light and color through his experiment with a prism in the 17th century. He showed that white light is composed of the visible colors of the spectrum. - When white light enters a prism, it is refracted and the visible color spectrum is displayed as the light bends upon exiting the prism, similar to how raindrops create rainbows. - Newton identified seven colors in the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Some people only see six colors as indigo may be indistinguishable from violet.

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Newton Research

- Sir Isaac Newton was one of the first to understand the modern relationship between light and color through his experiment with a prism in the 17th century. He showed that white light is composed of the visible colors of the spectrum. - When white light enters a prism, it is refracted and the visible color spectrum is displayed as the light bends upon exiting the prism, similar to how raindrops create rainbows. - Newton identified seven colors in the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Some people only see six colors as indigo may be indistinguishable from violet.

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Light and Colors

Research

According to Steven Bleicher’s Book of Contemporary Color: Theory & Use ( second
edition), Sir Isaac Newton was one of the first to understand the modern concept of the
relationship between light and color. With his experiment with the prism during the
seventeenth century, showing that white light contained or was composed of visible colors
of the spectrum.

When white light enters a prism, it is refracted or bent as it comes out on the other side and
the visible spectrum of colors is displayed.

Just like how raindrops acts as the glass prism to create rainbow, refracting and bending the
light to create a multicolored arch.
Newton devised that the spectrum was composed of seven hues, ROYGBIV or red , orange
, yellow , green , blue , indigo and violet. Some people might only see six hues as they have
trouble of discerning which is violet and indigo, But Newton has a great color acuity and
could see a wider range of colors than the majority of people.

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OPTICKS BOOK 1 PART II

PROPOSITION I. THEORY I.

The phenomena of colours in refracted or reflected light are not caused by new modifications
of the light variously imprest, according to the various terminations of the light and shadows.

PROPOSITION II. THEORY II

All homogeneal light has its proper colour answering to its degree of refrangibility, and that
colour cannot be changed by reflections and refractions.
PROPOSITION IV. THEORY III.

Colours may be produced by composition which shall be like the colours of homogeneal
lights as to the appearance of colour, but not as to immutability of colour and constitution of
light. And those colours by how much they are more compounded by so much are they less
full and inteuse, and by too much composition they may be diluted and weakened till they
cease. There may be also colours produced by composition,which are not fully like of any of
the colours of homogeneal lights

PROPOSITION V. THEORY IV.


Whiteness and grey colours between white and black, may be compounded of colours, and
the whiteness of the sun's light is compounded of all the primary colours mixt in a due
proportion.

PROPOSITION VII. THEORY V.

All the colours in the universe which are made by light, and depend not on the power of
imagination , are either the colours of homogeneal lights, or compounded of these and that
either accurately or very nearly , according to the rule of the foregoing problem.

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