Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected white light through a prism onto a wall and had a friend mark the boundaries between the colors, which Newton then named. In his diagrams, ...

One has a telescope, one is looking through a prism and another is ... and all was light". Newton's niece Catherine Barton married John Conduitt, whose monument is at the opposite end of the nave to ...

Isaac Newton ... heard about Newton’s telescope they were impressed. This gave Newton the courage to tell them what he described as a ‘crucial experiment’ about light and colours.

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius ... and to refract white light with a prism into its component colours and back again into white light, establishing rigid ...

One of its earlier practitioners was Sir Isaac Newton ... colours was that they were impurities added by the prism to the pure white light. Newton thought that the colours were already present ...