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To Truly Understand a Rainbow — Revision Notes
ICSE · Class 7 · English Literature : Book 'Gulmohar'
To Truly Understand a Rainbow revision notes for ICSE Class 7 English Literature : Book 'Gulmohar': 4 topics in quick points.
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Newton and the discovery of light
- Isaac Newton was an unpopular, solitary, brilliant college student in the early 1660s.
- He bought two prisms at a market near his college, even though he had very little money.
- The Great Plague spread through London and forced Newton to leave college and go to Woolsthorpe Manor.
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The crucial experiment and Newton's theory
- Newton performed an experimentum crucis, which means a crucial experiment.
- He placed a screen between the window and the prism and made a slit in the screen.
- Only pure green light was allowed to pass through the slit.
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Rainbow and scientific thinking
- Newton's discovery helped explain how a rainbow is formed.
- A natural rainbow forms when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed inside water droplets in the atmosphere.
- Newton showed that white light can split into many colours.
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Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu
- Sarojini Naidu was known as The Nightingale of India.
- She also wrote The Bazaars of Hyderabad and The Wandering Singers.
- The poem is a call to the fishermen to go out to sea early in the morning.
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