Newton disc

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A Newton disc is a disc with segments in rainbow colours. When you rotate the disc, the colors fade to white; In this way Isaac Newton demonstrated that white light is a combination of the seven different colors found in a rainbow. A Newton Disc can be created by painting a disc with the seven different colors. A combination of red, green and blue in the circular disc will give the same result. This is due to the phenomenon called 'persistence of vision'.