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Newton and the Imaginary Colour

I was thinking about colours today - specifically which colours correspond to which wavelengths. The results are a bit weird: - Red: 750 - 620 nm - Orange:…

I was thinking about colours today - specifically which colours correspond to which wavelengths. The results are a bit weird:

  • Red: 750 - 620 nm
  • Orange: 620 - 590 nm
  • Yellow: 590 - 570 nm
  • Green: 570  -495 nm
  • Blue: 495 - 450 nm
  • Violet: 450  -380 nm

Here I’ve used the figures given by Wikipedia (sourced from catchily titled the