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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.
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
1/8 We’ve just lost our “Newton’s Apple Tree” to Storm Eunice (gravity is such a downer, arf arf). It was planted in 1954, so has stood at the Brookside entrance @CUBotanicGarden for 68 years.
The apple tree fell in February 2022. The tree at Cambridge University Botanic Garden was a scion - a descendent - of the tree that was said to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.
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. [ 214 ] [ 215 ] The story is believed to have passed into popular knowledge after being related by Catherine Barton , Newton's niece, to Voltaire . [ 216 ]
The appearance of the comet in 1759, now named after him, within a month of predictions based on Newton's gravity greatly improved scientific opinion of the theory. [106] Newton's theory enjoyed its greatest success when it was used to predict the existence of Neptune based on motions of Uranus that could not be accounted by the actions of the ...
The fallen tree was a scion of the original apple tree which was said to have inspired Newton to formulate his theory of gravity by watching an apple fall from it in the 1660s.
Gauss's law for gravity – Restatement of Newton's law of universal gravitation; Jordan and Einstein frames – different conventions for the metric tensor, in a theory of a dilaton coupled to gravity; Kepler orbit – Celestial orbit whose trajectory is a conic section in the orbital plane