Newton And Prisms

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to appear through the separation of the "white" light. To demonstrate and prove his theory, Newton used a prism.
A prism is a type of lens with sharp angled edges that are able to separate light. Prisms can be very simple boxes or triangles or prisms can be in complex shapes like diamonds. The prism's ability to bend visible light into the different colors that make up the rainbow is what helped it become the perfect tool for Newton.
To set up his experiment, Newton took a single beam of "white" light and passed it through a prism. The prism separated the colors in the white light to form a wide color band called a spectrum. Newton then took the band of colors ranging from red, orange, yellow, green, blue, to violet and put them through another prism to create white light again. This proved that different colored light rays made up the colorless ray that man had always witnessed. Newton then became curious, if the colored light was made up of other colors. To validate his ...

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