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Written by: nongnotno [25/12/10, 13:50] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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BBC The Beauty of Diagrams 3of6 Newton's Prism From...http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wbn7y  Series in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the world's most familiar scientific diagrams. In the mid-1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, which were to be the basis of a series of experiments that would unlock a secret that had occupied scientists for centuries - the nature of light itself. To explain what he had done, Newton created a diagram. It is called The Crucial Experiment and is a pivotal image in scientific history, a graphic moment when the ancient world was overturned by modern science. Newton demonstrated that white light is not pure, but made up of a number of different colours, the colours of the rainbow. Newton's ideas transformed our knowledge of what we see and how we see, and the prism and its refracted colours became a captivating image. From fibre-optics to the cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album, Newton's work went on to influence centuries of science and art. |
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