Rainbow which a glass prism could separate into the full spectrum of colours, rejecting the theory that the colours were produced by a modification of white light. He also showed that red light is refracted less than blue light, which led to the first scientific explanation of the major features of the rainbow. Newton's corpuscular theory of light was unable to explain supernumerary rainbows, and a satisfactory explanation was not found until Thomas Young realised that light behaves as a wave under certain conditions, and can interfere with itself. Young's work was refined in the 1820s by George Biddell Airy, who
The Rainbow and the Rose at Pascoe's rescue only to learn that Pascoe had died during the night. Like Conrad, Shute often uses a narrator to tell the story; in "The Rainbow and the Rose", the narrator periodically shifts from Clarke to Pascoe. The Rainbow and the Rose The Rainbow and the Rose is a novel by Nevil Shute. It was first published in England in 1958 by William Heinemann. The title is taken from a sonnet "The Treasure" by Rupert Brooke, which is quoted in full as a preface: <poem>When colour goes home into the eyes, With dancing girls and sweet birds' cries And