Subject of rainbows:reprint
Rainbows The first thing I thought of when I read the word tones was how very difficult it is to explain followed by the thought of a lovely rainbow. Tones falling into 2 very interconnected areas of Light and Sound. Just as the Artist strives to capture the beauty of a rainbow in his work, Much beauty can be found in the scientists mathematical equations of rainbows. Just as a rainbows beauty may be captured in a poem. The more we have learned about how the universe is measured, the broader has become our understanding of the rainbow. We have learned that an instrument called a spectroscope is modern sciences most important tool in understanding the physical nature of the universe. The basic principle the spectroscope employs was first discovered by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666; A ray of sunlight passing through a prism will divide into the seven colours of the rainbow. Sir Isaac called this seven coloured bodies of light the spectrum: meaning apparition, spectre or ghost. No one really