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Color wheel
Isaac Newton's prism experiment
colour circle
colour mixing
energy distribution in light from daylight
spectral reflectance curve of emerald green
chromaticity diagram
Munsell colour system
Munsell's colour solid
Ostwald colour system
The video thumbnail image shows a purple and pink flower in a field.
Who created the color wheel?
The science behind the color black
How do blind people perceive the world?
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Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
Irish physicist
Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun
Russian artist and art theorist
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
Ewald Hering
German physiologist and psychologist
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist

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