This is Not a Rainbow
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The rainbow, as we know it, is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. ROYGBV. I'm ignoringIndigo because, let's be honest. Indigo?But where exactly is violet? Is it at the end here? This dark blue? And what’s thisbrighter light blue-green? Cyan, perhaps? Why don't we say the rainbow is Red OrangeYellow Green Cyan Blue? ROYGCBWell, we actually do, and we’ve just forgotten. When Isaac Newton originally observed a rainbowof light split by a prism and made his labeling of the colors as RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoViolet,the thing he called “blue” was indeed what we would now call blue-green, teal orcyan – reminiscent of the color of the blue sky. And what we now tend to call blue, Newtoncalled violet - as in, roses are red, violets...
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The rainbow, as we know it, is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. ROYGBV. I'm ignoringIndigo because, let's be honest. Indigo?But where exactly is violet? Is it at the end here? This dark blue? And what’s thisbrighter light blue-green? Cyan, perhaps? Why don't we say the rainbow is Red OrangeYellow Green Cyan Blue? ROYGCBWell, we actually do, and we’ve just forgotten. When Isaac Newton originally observed a rainbowof light split by a prism and made his labeling of the colors as RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoViolet,the thing he called “blue” was indeed what we would now call blue-green, teal orcyan – reminiscent of the color of the blue sky. And what we now tend to call blue, Newtoncalled violet - as in, roses are red, violets...
