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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Most Interesting Moments in the History of Science
Isaac Newton's work with the colors produced when you pass sunlight through a prism is one of his most famous works. The prevailing notion going back to antiquity was that colors are produced in a sense by modifying or tinting white light, he says. "It begins to show you what gets involved when you've got a smart individual who's trying to monkey around with stuff and finds new things about it"
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