It is said that Isaac Newton assigned the seven colours of the rainbow to match up with the seven musical notes, though he knew there are more than seven colours in the spectrum. Newton would not have been able to describe which of the seven colours, if he had lived a hundred years before his time?

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Newton decided to divide the rainbow into seven colors because he believed seven was a cosmically significant, even “magic” number. The musical scale has seven notes, and Newton decided to define seven distinct colors as well.

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It is said that Isaac Newton assigned the seven colours of the rainbow to match up with the seven musical notes, though he knew there are more than seven colours in the spectrum. Newton would not have been able to describe which of the seven colours, if he had lived a hundred years before his time?

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