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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.
Isaac Newton and an apple tree form the popular, mythical account of his formulation of the theory of universal gravitation. A scientific myth is a myth about science, or a myth or factoid that is commonly thought to be scientific. Scientific discoveries are often presented in a mythological way with a theory being presented as a dramatic flash ...
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 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.
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 ...
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. Walwyn, flickr Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree has been ...
Isaac Newton recounted to his contemporary William Stukeley how an apple tree in the orchard inspired him to work on his law of universal gravitation. [7] [8] Dendrochronology confirms one of the trees in the orchard to be over 400 years old, having regrown from roots surviving from a tree which blew down in 1820. [9]
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.