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Newton's indigo
Author(s) -
McLaren K.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.5080100411
Subject(s) - indigo , analogy , musical , inclusion (mineral) , newton's method , mathematics , calculus (dental) , epistemology , literature , philosophy , art , psychology , physics , visual arts , medicine , social psychology , nonlinear system , dentistry , quantum mechanics
Many different explanations have been put forward over the last eighty years to account for Newton's inclusion of indigo as one of the seven spectral colors. The most important of these have been critically examined and it is concluded that it was included solely in the hope of developing an analogy with the musical scale.