CHAPTER 1
COLOR
THE SCIENCE OF COLOR
Why do we see different colors, and where do they come from?
Leonardo looked at everything he did from every possible angle. As a painter, he studied the geometry of light rays and the nature of shadows. As an artist’s apprentice in the 1460s, he learned to grind glass lenses and was fascinated with using them to focus light, which he recognized as a form of energy. Later, he also experimented with refraction (bending light by passing it through a prism) and watched the magical results. He wrote about his experiments in his notebooks, but he never published his results. Credit for the discovery of the color in light would go to another scientist, Sir Isaac Newton in England, who published his own studies ...
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