nepal — It always falls down. That’s how the apple helped Isaac Newton. An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity was posted to the Web Monday, ma… ...

It happened in 1666, when Newton had fled the plague in Cambridge and sat thinking in his mother’s garden, he wondered if the same force that made an apple fall also applied to the Moon, and ...

Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ...

Just don't get confused: The English cooking apple, "Newton Wonder" has nothing to do with Sir Isaac's. His was a "Flower of Kent," which despite its name is thought to have originated in France.

It always falls down. That's how the apple helped Isaac Newton. An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity was posted to the Web Monday, making the fragile paper ...

Piers Seller, a U.K. native, will bring a bit of the tree into space on the next shuttle mission. Sir Isaac Newton hatched his theory of gravity in the 1600s after he witnessed an apple from the ...

The hyper-rational world of science has always made a bit of room to accommodate legend and William & Mary will soon be home to a living piece of one of the most well-known scientific legends: a ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A piece of the apple tree that helped British scientist Sir Isaac Newton explain the tug of ...

LONDON — An 18th-century account of how a falling apple helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making the manuscript widely available to the public for the ...

The First Apple Logo Featured Isaac Newton. Although the now-retro rainbow logo is arguably Apple's most well known, the very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under a tree, ...