Over the Rainbow

[Jeffrey Reid]

On Tue, 7 May 1996, Milan Kundera wrote:
> > At 11:18 AM 5/7/96 -0400, you wrote:
> > >an interesting side note on Newton's Optiks (sp?)...when he first broke
> > >light up in a prism he counted 7 colors (adding indigo - where we now
> > >count 6, leaving that out) because he was convinced that the 7 colors
> > >would corrispond to the 7 notes in the musical scale.
> > >	many interesting possibilities there....
> > >
> > When did we take indigo out of the ROY G. BIV spectrum that we learned as
> > kids, and what sinister forces are behind this.
> >
> I don't know when how why it was taken out...does see odd.
>
I think you must be experiencing some sort of localized phenomenon.
Everyone I know here in Seattle (at University of Washington) has never
even heard the slightest peep about removing indigo from ROY G BIV and in
fact they voiced quite a bit of resistance to the idea.  I think They will
have quite a bit of difficulty in taking it out.

Jeff

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Jeffrey G Reid       			jgreid at u.washington.edu
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 by perpetual intercourse with you, consoled for the wickedness
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