15 Interesting facts about colors

Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, and so forth, based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra.

While Newton was interested in a scientific explanation of color, the German poet Wolfgang von Goethe dedicated his book Theory of Colors from 1810 to a more human-centered analysis of the perception of color. Through a series of experiments that measured the eye’s response to certain colors, Goethe created what is arguably the most famous color circle of all time. The circle had three primary colors – magenta, yellow, and blue – which he believed could mix all other colors in the spectrum.

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