Naming seven colors to correspond to seven notes is “a kind of very strange and interesting thing for him to have done,” says Peter Pesic, physicist, pianist, and author of the 2014 book Music and the ...

Newton’s color wheel soon evolved from the original colors he noted into one that was organized by primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow, and are arranged ...

If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

'The only reason Newton came up with 'indigo' is because for occult reasons he believed there must be seven basic colours that come together to make white' You can save this article by registering for ...

Since Isaac Newton, colour has often been equated with visual music. Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, showing at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), takes a different view. It ...