Quotation from: General Science

Written by: Bertha M. Clark


A child wearing a green frock on Independence Day seems at night to be
wearing a black frock, if standing near powders burning with red,
blue, or violet light.


132. Pure, Simple Colors--Things as they Seem. To the eye white
light appears a simple, single color. It reveals its compound nature
to us only when passed through a prism, when it shows itself to be
compounded of an infinite number of colors which Sir Isaac Newton
grouped in seven divisions: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow,
orange, and red.

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