Invention of the Rainbow 82

Newton's Opticks, Book I, Part II, PROP IX, PROB IV.

From the inside of the Bow to the outside in this order, violet, indico, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.

But the violet, by the mixture of the white Light of the Clouds, will appear faint and incline to purple.

Isaac Newton, Opticks. London, 1704.

Jean Paul Marat, Mémoires académiques, Paris, 1788.

Traité d'optique par M. le Chev. Newton, traduit de l'anglois par M. Coste, Amsterdam, 1720.

Optique de Newton : traduction nouvelle faite par M. *** (Jean Paul Marat), Paris, 1787.

Isaaci Newtoni, Optices libri tres, Graecii : Typis haeredum Widmanstadii, 1747.

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