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When did newton divide the spectrum?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

in 1966 Isaac newton found that sunlight can be seperated into several colours he made a hole in the window shutter of a dark room then he placed a prism infront of the hole when sunlight entered the hole and shone on the prisms a spectrum was seen on a screen placed on the other side of the prism

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