Question

TPO 27 听力Lecture第4篇 第3题Why does the professor mention Isaac Newton?为什么答案是C?

Why does the professor mention Isaac Newton?A. To show the similarities between early ideas in art and early ideas in science.B. To explain why mixing primary colors does not produce satisfactory secondary colors.C. To provide background information for the theory of primary colors.D. To point out the first person to propose a theory of primary colors.

Answer 1

Professor: Newton gave a scientific and objective explanation of colors. He used a prism to break white light down into the various colors of the spectrum. And he theorized, rightly so, that different colors are essentially different wavelengths of light. But he made no mention of primary colors. That idea came from, or was at least published by a man named Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 牛顿对颜色进行了科学客观的解释，他通过实验推断出不同颜色的光的波长不同，但没有提到原色，原色理论最后是由歌德提出的。下文就阐述了歌德如何得出原色理论的，因此教授提到牛顿的例子只是一个背景信息， 是为了引出下文，所以选择 C 。