Newton (Sir Isaac)

discovered the prismatic colours of light. (1642–1727.)

“Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night,

God said, ‘Let Newton be,ʹ and all was light.”

The Newton of Harmony. Jean Philippe Rameau was so called from his work entitled a Dissertation on the Principles of Harmony. (1683–1764.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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