November 2013
Author: Egbert Keen
Influence of light and color
Perceiving colors belongs to the most ordinary things of everyday life. Everything is color. Color is just as form, an important tool to recognize the objects around us. Color is like light so self-evident that we scarcely think about it while the world is in fact completely colorless. The visible world consists of colorless matter. Light is the only source that colors.

But how do we see than all those colors? In the sixties of the seventeenth century Newton showed that white light is composed of all colors of the spectrum.

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