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| From | moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) |
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| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? |
| Date | 2016-06-24 18:42 +0000 |
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Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote: > I know that Newton pretended that there were seven colours in the > rainbow (presumably he didn't really believe it). The Wikipedia rainbow article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow states Newton initially used five colors but later added orange and indigo because the number seven was considered special (musical notes, (known) objects in solar system, days of week) at the time.
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Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-23 20:24 +0100
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-23 19:45 +0000
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