When he shone sunlight through a prism, it split into the colors of the rainbow. Before Newton's discovery, people didn't realize that white light contained so many colors of the visible spectrum.

This passage 2 is read by students to test their speaking skills: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light ...

Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected white light through a prism onto a wall and had a friend mark the boundaries between the colors, which Newton then named. In his diagrams, ...

The prism bends different colours of light at different ... So when the sun is behind you and the rain in front of you, you see a rainbow of colours reflected back from inside the raindrops.