Theory of colours
Date
23 June 1673
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol6 p175
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 301mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
Subject
Description
Figures copied from a letter by Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg dated 23 June 1673.
The figures illustrate an experiment to show that a compounded colour (white) is resolved into 'no more simple colours than those of which it is compounded'. This was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 96 (1673).
Figures copied from LBO/6/154. The original is at EL/N1/47/002.
The figures illustrate an experiment to show that a compounded colour (white) is resolved into 'no more simple colours than those of which it is compounded'. This was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 96 (1673).
Figures copied from LBO/6/154. The original is at EL/N1/47/002.
Object history
Printed as an inset woodcut at Isaac Newton, ‘Answer to the Foregoing Letter Further Explaining His Theory of Light and Colors, and Particularly That of Whiteness; together with His Continued Hopes of Perfecting Telescopes by Reflections Rather than Refractions’, Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 96 (July 1673) pp. 6087-92 (p. 6088).
Related fellows
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
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