It’s a running source of amusement between Chris Donohue and me that by far the most popular post on this site is guest contributor Thony Christie’s discussion of Newton’s prism experiments and theory of color for Hump-Day History back in December, which has just received its 1,000th page view.
By coincidence we’ve arrived at Schaffer’s well-known piece on Newton’s prism experiments in our ongoing exploration of his work, so in honor of Thony’s massive success with his piece, I’ll be doing a write-up of that piece (combined with Schaffer’s piece on astronomy’s “personal equation”) some time this week