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Newton's Apple was an American educational television program produced and developed by KTCA of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran from October 15, 1983, [1] to January 3, 1998, with reruns continuing until October 31, 1999.
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.
Ira Flatow (/ ˈ f l eɪ t oʊ /; born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts WNYC Studio's popular program Science Friday. [3] On TV, he hosted the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families. [4]
Catherine Barton (1679–1739) was an English woman who oversaw the running of the household of her uncle, scientist Isaac Newton.She was reputed to be the source of the story of the apple inspiring Newton's work on gravity, and his papers came to her on his death.
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 TARDIS lands in Isaac Newton's apple tree in 1666. As the Doctor and Donna depart, they accidentally cause Newton to name his discovery "mavity". Malfunctioning, the TARDIS lands on a spaceship at the edge of the universe. As Donna and the Doctor quickly exit, it spews flames while playing "Wild Blue Yonder", then shuts down.
Sir Isaac Newton's Apple This apple tree is a descendant by vegetative propagation of a tree which grew in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham, and which is reputed to be the tree from which fell the apple that helped Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation. The original tree is said to have died about 1815-1820.
Although it has been said that the apple story is a myth and that he did not arrive at his theory of gravity at any single moment, [227] acquaintances of Newton (such as William Stukeley, whose manuscript account of 1752 has been made available by the Royal Society) do in fact confirm the incident, though not the apocryphal version that the ...