The concepts of light and vision can often be seen as simple, but Isaac Newton discovered that optics consist of many branches which include light, and electromagnetic spectrum. Newton’s experiments led him to formulate revolutionary theories about the nature of the spectrum and the refraction of light. Newton made an argument that the geometric nature of the laws of reflection and refraction could only be explained if light was made of particles, as waves do not tend to travel in straight lines. Newton did earlier experiments and discovered that light is made of particles and not waves. Isaac Newton started as a young scientist eager to learn about light and colors. In 1665, on a sunny day, Newton decided to make a hole in his window shutter, allowing just one beam of sunlight to enter the room. Then, he took a glass prism and placed it in the sunbeam. It resulted in an amazing multicolored band of light called a color spectrum, looking like a rainbow. …show more content…
He was the first to understand the rainbow—he refracted white light with a prism, resolving it into its component colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. Then, Newton started experimenting with the phenomenon of colors. People thought that prisms colored light, and that color was a mixture of light and darkness. Newton made it clear to people that light alone was responsible for color. He formulated an idea for artists, which was the conceptual arrangement of colors around the circumference of a circle. This allowed the painters’ primaries (red, blue, yellow) to be arranged opposite to their complementary colors to indicate the complementary enhancing the others effect through optical