Theory of colours
Date
23 June 1673
Creator
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Description
Figures in a letter from 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).
There are copies at LBO/6/154 and LBC/6/175.
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).
There are copies at LBO/6/154 and LBC/6/175.
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
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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