On Vision and Colors from a prism, however, the production of white can be demonstrated by using a mixture of colored light from each of the three main pairs of complementary colors: red – green, orange – blue, or yellow – violet. White can be produced from two complementary opposite colors when both of the external causes of the colors excite the same retinal place at the same time. Newton claimed that white could be produced by the aggregation of his seven prismatic colors. He erroneously considered color to be in light instead of in the eye. White is the result of the combination
Coat of many colors Coat of many colors In the Hebrew Bible, the coat of many colors ( "ketonet passim") is the name for the garment that Joseph owned, which was given to him by his father, Jacob. According to the King James Version, Genesis 37:3 reads, "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours." The Septuagint translation of the passage uses the word ("poikilos"), which indicates "many colored"; the Jewish Publication Society of America Version also employs the phrase "coat of many colors". On