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But in passing through the prism the beam had acquired a red-orange fringe along one edge and a blue-violet fringe along the other. The colored fringes on an otherwise unaltered beam of white light seemed to bear out an ancient theory of the nature of the rainbow’s colors, a theory which held that a succession of modifi cations of sunlight by the droplets of a rain cloud produced the colors of the bow. In the century and a half preceding Newton’s work such a theory was repeatedly and variously reformulated and applied to the colored iris generated by the prism.
The achievements initiated by Newton’s own imagination are unsurpassed, and it is primarily the magnitude of his achievements that directs attention to the man. If the resulting study displays error and idiosyncrasy in Newton’s complex and difficult person ality, it cannot lessen his unparalleled accomplishments. It can alter only our image of the requisites for preeminent scientific achievement. But this alteration is a goal worth pursuing: a true image of the successful scientist is a first condition for understand ing science.
London, T. Warner, 1728 (not in Babson; perhaps this is Gray 390); the Harvard College Library contains a copy of the T. Warner “second edition,” dated 1727. There is some question whether the date 1727 is a typographical error or whether possibly this is a printing made during the months of January to March, a period during which dates could be given as 1727, 1727/28, or 1728, depending upon feel ings toward the old or the new style of dating since the official accept ance of “new style” dating did not occur in England until 1751/52.
