The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810) | Open Culture
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Newton first described in his 1672 Opticks the “revolutionary new theory of light and colour,” the University of Cambridge Whipple Library writes, “in which he claimed that experiments with prisms proved that white light was comprised of light of seven distinct colours.” Scientists debated Newton’s theory “well into the 19th century.”