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Newton's experiment shows how beam of white light is refracted by prism & broken into colours of spectrum (right). Dotted line shows beam of light entering through window and path it would take if not refracted. Woodcut from Voltaire Melanges de Philosophie: Elemens due Philosophie de Newton, etc. Paris 1757.

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