To me and my Theology/Philosophy Education I would say that this is a difference between Aristotle and Plato. Up to the 16th Century the king of everything Scie

To me and my Theology/Philosophy Education I would say that this is a difference between Aristotle and Plato. Up to the 16th Century the king of everything Science in Europe was Aristotle and their was always tension between the two philosopher's theories. https://www.diffen.com/difference/Aristotle_vs_Plato https://www.diffen.com/difference/Aristotle_vs_Plato People's worldview were more important than simple observation and is the biggest difference between modern science and the past, arguably. Isaac Newton even decided the 7 colors due to his own theory of the world. "Music and the Making of Modern Science. “It has no justification in experiment exactly; it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/48584/title/Newton-s-Color-Theory--ca--1665/ https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/48584... Whenever I read articles like this I think it is Aristotle's forms and it is 100% why there are four colors. From the article > The reason why the author saw four colours in the rainbow comes from the theory of the four elements, an idea which goes back to Aristotle. But why those particular colours? The answer to me is obvious. The "scientifically" held fact was the rainbow had four colors, because the rainbow represented the four elements. Now however you wanted to divide up the four colors was the scientific aspect of thought back than. I find that the Plato vs Aristotle is not common knowledge in our modern times and causes a lot of people to view the people of history as idiots because we look at the rainbow and of course there are more than 4 colors. But they added "black" or "white" to add their 4th.