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Sir Isac Newton, he did this by shining a light on a glass prism in a dark room. The prism separated the white light into the colour spectrum we know today. There are actually colours in it that we can't see

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Q: Who was the first scientist demonstrate that white light was composed of the light of all the colours of the rainbow?
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