On Vision and Colors tried to demonstrate physiologically that color is "specially modified activity of the retina." The initial basis for Schopenhauer's color theory comes from Goethe's chapter on physiological colors, which discusses three principal pairs of contrasting colors: red/green, orange/blue, and yellow/violet. This is in contrast to the customary emphasis on Newton's seven colors of the Newtonian spectrum. In accordance with Aristotle, Schopenhauer considered that colors arise by the mixture of shadowy, cloudy darkness with light. With white and black at each extreme of the scale, colors are arranged in a series according to the mathematical ratio between the proportions of light and
Science Spectrum fall of 1986, a board of directors was formed and the Science Spectrum was incorporated. The museum officially opened to the public on February 11, 1989, as a hands-on science and technology museum. It is a 501-C3 nonprofit educational corporation and is a member of the Association of Science and Technology Centers. The logo of the Science Spectrum is the prism, first discovered by Sir Isaac Newton. Throughout the ages, light has been associated with knowledge and understanding. As white light is actually the sum of many colors of different wavelengths, the light of knowledge of our world is composed