... to discover a book on astrology, but couldn't understand it very well on account of the geometry and trigonometry. He therefore bought a book by Euclid, and learned very quickly how obvious the propositions seemed. Later he read and mastered Oughtred's Clavis, and Descartes' Geometry, which led ... the subject of his first research topic. Newton discovered the decomposition of white light into rays of different colored light by means of a prism Newton invented the method for determining the coefficients of refraction of different bodies. This is done by making a ray pass through a prism,...

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