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Decomposition of white light into its colours

Even if the English scientist Isaac Neuton came in the year 1666 AD, he conducted experiments that settled the whole matter. In a dark room, he set up a prism with a triangular base made of glass, and through a hole in the window of the room, a thin ray of sunlight entered it, so that this ray fell on one of the three faces of the triangular prism, parallel to the uprights of the prism. The ray penetrated the glass on this side of it, and exited the glass on the adjacent side. Newton threw the outgoing beam at a barrier, and he saw on this barrier, instead of the white light, several lights, which are the spectrum that we know today. We chose the one that showed its colors to us, so we said that it contains seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Newton was not the first to come up with the idea that white sunlight is composed of colored lights. But it is

(This is how Newton conducted his experiment in which he divided sunlight into the known colors of the spectrum. By transmitting a ray of sunlight through a hole into the room, into the prism, and the white ray was separated into the colors of the spectrum.)

He returned and ordered these colored lights in glass prisms, hoping to solve them into something simpler, but they were not solved. So they are the “elements” of light. Then he went back and collected these spectrum lights, and directed them in reverse through the prisms, and suddenly they united and produced nothing but the white light from which they were generated.
Perhaps this is the most dangerous new thing that Newton created.

Colors of the spectrum, other than the colors of pigments.
The first is mixed with addition, the second with subtraction.
From the first, the origins of color are gathered in it.
It gives you whiteness. And collect from the second
The origins of color are in it, so it gives you blackness.

In the science of light, this phenomenon is the phenomenon of refraction of rays. It broke when it penetrated the surface of the first glass, then broke again when it exited the surface of the other glass (which makes an angle of 60 degrees with the surface of the first glass). But the refraction of the violet rays was greater, so these rays were separated from each other, thus forming a spectrum.

These are called the colors into which sunlight is dispersed
With the spectrum of the sun.