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Isaac Newton's apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor [1] [2] represents the inspiration behind Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.While the precise details of Newton's reminiscence (reported by several witnesses to whom Newton allegedly told the story) are impossible to verify, the significance of the event lies in its explanation of Newton's scientific thinking.
Newton himself often told the story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree. [ 218 ] [ 219 ] The story is believed to have passed into popular knowledge after being related by Catherine Barton , Newton's niece, to Voltaire . [ 220 ]
Currently, this cultivar remains available at Antique Apple Orchard Inc. in Sweet Home, Oregon. [3] According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation. The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale [4] contains an example, listed as "Isaac Newton's Tree" (1948-729).
A clone of Newton’s apple tree, which was planted at Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden in 1954, has fallen during Storm Eunice. It was a scion of the original apple tree which was said to ...
The fallen tree was a scion of the original apple tree which was said to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity by watching an apple fall from it in the 1660s.
Walwyn, flickr Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree has been fenced off to protect it from the damaging effects of pesky gravity and apple loving
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1643, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1685. Overview of Newton ...
An artist has made ink from a clone of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree that was blown down by Storm Eunice in Cambridge last year. The fallen tree was a scion of the original apple tree which was ...