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Roger Bacon was the first to realize that the colors he saw through a glass of water came from the sunlight hitting the glass. Four hundred years later (1671) Isaac newton first used the word 'spectrum' in describing his experiments with prisms, and made one of the earliest explanations of the optical spectrum.

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