In the March paper of 1905, Einstein directly challenged the orthodoxy of physics: orthodoxy that had grown and strengthened for over a century; orthodoxy that rested on bedrock experiment and far-ranging theory. All physicists in 1905 knew what light was.
http://www.npr.org/2005/03/17/4538324/albert-einsteins-year-of-miracles-light-theory
Color Theory in Art. SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1643-1727). The refraction of light through a glass prism. This simple experiment demonstrates that color comes from light-in fact, that color is light. Scientists investigate the properties of color theory whereas artists explore its visual effects.
http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/color_theory_1.htm
Newton's Prism Experiments In 1665, Isaac Newton was a young scientist studying at Cambridge University in England. He was very interested in learning all about light and colors.
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Laue was not alone in his belief. In 1905, the magnitude of Einstein's departure from the sanctioned belief about light was so unsettling that his particle theory of light was not accepted for two decades.
http://www.npr.org/2005/03/17/4538324/albert-einsteins-year-of-miracles-light-theory
The band of colors combined again into white sunlight. Newton was the first to prove that white light is made up of all the colors that we can see. You can learn more about light, prisms, and the color spectrum at our Light, Prisms and the Rainbow Connection Activity site.
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This is remarkable. It speaks very will for Newton’s experimental skill and the accuracy of his descriptions of results he did not at the time understand. So in the early 1800’s Newton’s particle theory and Young’s wavetheory of light coexisted.
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/609.ral5q.fall04/LecturePDF/L20-LIGHTII.pdf
Newton believed that all the colors he saw were in the sunlight shining into his room. He thought he then should be able to combine the colors of the spectrum and make the light white again. To test this, he placed another prism upside-down in front of the first prism. He was right.
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Color as Light. Sir Isaac Newton was one of the first scientists to investigate color theory. Around 1671-72 he discovered the origin of color when he shone a beam of light through an angular prism and split it into the spectrum-the various colors of the rainbow.
http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/color_theory_1.htm
Einstein Papers Project. Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis — his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc².
http://www.npr.org/2005/03/17/4538324/albert-einsteins-year-of-miracles-light-theory
Newton proposed that light consists of little masses. This means that a horizontal beam of light near the earth is undergoing projectile motion, and forms a parabola. The straight line we observe is due to the fact that the speed of the particles is so great. In one microsecond, light travels 300 m. In that time it should fall a distance y = 1/2gt 2 = 5*10 -12 m, much too small to be seen.Many known properties of light could be explained easily by a particle model.
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/609.ral5q.fall04/LecturePDF/L20-LIGHTII.pdf
when did newton discover theory of light and color
Newton discovered the theory of light and color in around 1671 to 1672. Newton discovered theory of light and color around the year 1971 and 1672.