![]() ![]() “After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees…he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. Newton told the apple story to Stukeley, who relayed it as such: It is the manuscript for what would become a biography of Newton entitled Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Lifewritten by William Stukeley, an archaeologist and one of Newton’s first biographers, and published in 1752. For at least 240 years it has been shown to visitors as Isaac Newtons apple tree. Squirreled away in the archives of London’s Royal Society was a manuscript containing the truth about the apple. The tree first put down roots around 400 years ago. The apocryphal story is one of the most famous in the history of science and now you can see for yourself what Newton actually said. “Aha!” he shouts, or perhaps, “Eureka!” In a flash he understands that the very same force that brought the apple crashing toward the ground also keeps the moon falling toward the Earth and the Earth falling toward the sun: gravity. Suddenly – boink! -an apple hits him on the head. ![]() The Newton is Apples first major new product line since the Macintosh was. A young Isaac Newton is sitting beneath an apple tree contemplating the mysterious universe. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Chicago, Apple Computer CEO John. ![]()
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