![]() ![]() Indeed, one of the most iconic experiments in the history of science, Newton’s prism experiments, occurred during this period. Some of these changes are related to shifts in what today might be called the scientific understanding of color, namely developments linked to the growing culture of experimentation. This entry is organized into four rough periods: color in late scholasticism, changes due to the rise of corpuscular philosophies, and Newton’s new account of color and its initial reception, and other developments in the first half of the eighteenth century. What is considered here-namely, what philosophers and other litterati wrote about color and related topics-underwent several distinct changes between in the period covered, i.e., about 1550 to 1750. Nevertheless, relatively recent scholarly work has provided at least some basic historical and philosophical outlines. ![]() How color was used and understood in medicine, philosophy, literature, language, and manual work such as painting, dyeing, glassmaking-along with directions and degrees of influence among these groups-has yet to be satisfactorily mapped out. The science and philosophy of color in the early modern period is a complex and unwieldy area of study. ![]()
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