On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
Robert Brault
Physicists that researched the properties of light discovered that there is a short band of visible light rays at one end of the light band. Within that visible portion, Sir Isaac Newton discovered the color spectrum. In the seventeenth century, he passed white light through a prism and saw that it split into bands of beautiful color. He later combined the two ends of the bands and thus, the color wheel was born. In Newton’s time, the number seven was important and he identified seven colors in the spectrum, the six colors that we have today; red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet, plus indigo. Who knew?