desmonde
Newton lectured on optics from 1670 to 1672.
Isaac Newton
Newton's work in optics
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coffeym
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Newton's experiments with refraction demonstrated that white light could be decomposed into the spectrum and then recomposed into white light with the use of prisms and a lens.
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wellis
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Newton's theory of color stated that the color of light comes from its interactions with objects rather than emanating from the objects themselves.
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jackiecox
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newton, the plaugarist, was rather consistently wrong, eh ? Lord Newton, the mint guy
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jackiecox
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did he use his head of lady like hair to demon strate reflexion ? Newtons train left the station before he got there, so he caught the next one, and didn't even know it ha ha ha