[DOC] [TLE] Newton's theory of Light - The Star Garden [PAR] Newton bought his first prism in an attempt to disprove Descartes' theory of light. 
He claimed Grimaldi's diffraction was simply a new kind of refraction. ... This 
showed that the colour spectrum is not caused by glass corrupting the light. ... 
Huygens thought that light waves were longitudinal, moving in a parallel direction 
to the... [DOC] [TLE] Newton and the Color Spectrum - Webexhibits [PAR] The diagram from Sir Isaac Newton's crucial experiment, 1666-72. A ray of light is 
divided into its constituent colors by the first prism (left), and the resulting ... In the 
late 1660s, Newton starts experimenting with his 'celebrated ... Further, to prove 
that the prism was not coloring the light, he refracted the light back together. [DOC] [TLE] Newton and the colour of light - The College of Optometrists [PAR] His experiments in bending light through prisms led, eventually, to the ... white 
light of a mixture of distinct coloured rays, distinguishable when refracted in a 
prism. ... A painting in the BOA Museum shows Newton allowing light, via a prism, 
... another paper which described further experiments on the colour of thin films 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Sir Isaac Newton facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Their surviving children, Newton's four nephews and four nieces, were his heirs. 
... even the prism experiments on refraction and dispersion were made in his 
rooms ... writing the Principia, and in the mid-1670's he contemplated a 
publication on optics. ..... Recognizing that there are different rates of increase 
and decrease,... [DOC] [TLE] Isaac Newton Biography - Newton's Life, Career, Work - Dr Robert A ... [PAR] Newton's childhood was anything but happy, and throughout his life he .... yet 
another aperture to a second prism, through which it was refracted onto a ... 
Further, since experiment had shown that the properties of the separate colors of 
light were ... Early manuscripts suggest that in the mid-1660's, Newton did not 
think in... [DOC] [TLE] Isaac Newton - Wikipedia [PAR] Sir Isaac Newton FRS was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely 
recognised ... Experiments[show] ... In addition to his work on calculus, as a 
mathematician Newton contributed to the study of power series, .... the refraction 
of light, demonstrating that the multicoloured spectrum produced by a prism could 
be... [DOC] [TLE] Optics - Wikipedia [PAR] Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behaviour and properties of 
light, including ... Because light is an electromagnetic wave, other forms of 
electromagnetic ..... A device which produces converging or diverging light rays 
due to refraction is ... Ray tracing can be used to show how images are formed by 
a lens. [DOC] [TLE] NEWTON'S NEW WAY OF INQUIRY Throughout his ... - Springer [PAR] Throughout his "scientific" career, extending from the mid-1660's until his death 
sixty ... propositions that were firmly established by reasoning from experiment 
and ... The first used a computed refractive index of the prism to show that .... 
composition are requisite all the aforesaid primary Colours, mixed in a due 
proportion. [DOC] [TLE] On Metaphysics and Method in Newton Howard Stein Let me remark ... [PAR] Only a handful of general and often vague statements about his method, ... 
Society of London, founded in 1660, where Hooke was Curator of Experiments; 
and of ..... these several portions were refracted differently from one another: the 
light at ... constitution can produce the same visual appearance of color; thus, 
Newton... [DOC] [TLE] SAGE Video - Newton and Nightingale - SAGE Knowledge [PAR] These two small diagrams shook the worldwhen they were released. ... Using a 
prism like this, he embarkedon a series of experiments that would answer a ... 
And here is the vital document, Newton's handdrawn diagram, which shows us 
exactly ... What is color?His ideas didn't just transform our knowledge of what we 
see,. [DOC] [TLE] color vision - Instituto de Artes [PAR] show the photopic luminous intensity in lumens. The peak .... produced by the 
reflected light  can be used

Question: His experiments in the mid-1660s showed that the colors produced by a prism were due to different refraction rates
Answer: Newton