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My letter in “Nature”: How music inspired Newton’s rainbow

My letter in “Nature”: How music inspired Newton’s rainbow

by Len Fisher | 22 Apr 2015 | News

Very pleased that my letter “Music inspired Newton’s rainbow” has now been published online in Nature Vol 250 (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7548/pdf/520436a.pdf). Even more pleasingly, Nature chose to illustrate my letter with the...
1. Why Newton Added Two Colors to the Rainbow

1. Why Newton Added Two Colors to the Rainbow

by Len Fisher | 5 Dec 2014 | Mini Stories from Science

When Isaac Newton allowed the sunlight passing through a hole in his blind to hit a glass prism that split it into different colours, he wasn’t the first to see such colours. In fact, he’d probably seen them as a child, reflected from the bubbles in his bath, and of...

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