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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

AfaIk, the novelty was, that the fractions of the rainbow, e.g. yellow, themselves do not split into a rainbow again if they are sent though a prism. That led to the conclusion that white sunlight is actually composed of light of different colours which cannot be decomposed further.