“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 ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the ... including the nature of matter, light, and color. At the same time, to better understand the texts he was reading, Newton began to study ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and ... Newtonian telescopes use a reflecting mirror to avoid the colour distortion and rainbow effect afflicting telescopes ...