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Researchers Say They’ve Discovered “Unprecedented” New Color No One Has Ever Seen Before

By Regina Sienra

https://mymodernmet.com/new-color-olo-blue-green/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=04272025&utm_medium=email&sh_kit=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

Original article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052

Goethe's Theory of Colours at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50572

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The centre of a large object remains long uncoloured, especially with mediums of less density and smaller angles; but at last the opposite borders and edges touch each other, upon which a green appears in the centre of the luminous image.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50572/pg50572-images.html#col003

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Newton's Rainbow

In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.

https://library.si.edu/exhibition/color-in-a-new-light/science

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504

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Sir Isaac Newton
Opticks, or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light...
London, 1704

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