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In 1666, Isaac Newton performed his famous experiment showing that white light can be separated by a prism to form a strip of light, named the visible spectrum, which includes all visible colours ranging from red, orange, yellow, green and blue to violet. Subsequently, white light was formed by directing the visible spectrum to pass through a second prism. This experiment shows that spectral colours in the visible spectrum are the basic components of white light. This important finding opened the door for the discipline of Colour Science.
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Luo, M.R. (1998). Colour science. In: Sangwine, S.J., Horne, R.E.N. (eds) The Colour Image Processing Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5779-1_3
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