Voltaire, writing in English in his Essay on the Civil War in France (1727), spoke of 'Sir Isaac Newton walking in his Garden had the first thought of his System of Gravitation, upon seeing an Apple ...

He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from a tree ... the story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas Day in 1642.

Legend has it that Isaac Newton had the moment of inspiration that would lead to his theory of gravity when, on a warm ...

The celebrated English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in a small village in England named ...

Newton’s law says the force of attraction between a planet such as Earth and another object, such as the moon, depends on the ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the ... both men arrived at the calculus independently. The story of the falling apple has became part of the mythology that surrounds Newton, as Robert ...

Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree Newton’s Apple Tree ... where the great man was inspired by watching one of the apples fall from the tree. The original tree was knocked down in the storm in ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and ...

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire ... formulate his theory of universal gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree. Cartoons have gone further to suggest ...

We've all read the tales of how Sir Isaac Newton penned ... after watching apples fall also once asked which were apples to make the best cider. It is also said that Newton has gifted a flagon ...