The Child's Book of Nature for the Use of Families and Schools Intended to Aid Mothers and Teachers in Training Children in the Observation of Nature. Revised Edition. Part 3: Air, Water, Heat, Light, etc. (1886)
olors, as Newton showed. Why the sun’s light is white. CHAPTER XXVII. COLOR. The light that comes from the sun is, you know, a white light. Now this white light is made up of all colors of the rainbow ; it is these colors mixed together that make the white color of the sun’s light. This was proved… … spot, instead of being round, as it was before at F, was now lengthened out, and had seven different colors in it, at M. All this is represented on this figure. At D is the hole in the shutter. Without the prism it would ^ . go straight to F,
