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 ...

It was a scion of the original apple tree grown in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, which, it is said, inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity by watching the fall of an apple from the tree.

Located in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology lies Isaac Newton's apple tree. Learn the true story behind Isaac's discovery of gravitation. Growing in a courtyard garden within the School lives a remnant of Isaac Newton's past - an ancient apple tree.

2010年1月18日 · We’ve all heard the story. A young Isaac Newton is sitting beneath an apple tree contemplating the mysterious universe. Suddenly – boink! -an apple hits him on the head. “Aha!” he shouts,...

2017年9月24日 · Apple trees have long been a part of human history, as one of the first cultivated trees, but one tree inspired one of the biggest scientific discoveries in centuries. The so called 'gravity tree' is located on the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.

2018年6月26日 · At Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England, the ancestral home of Sir Isaac Newton, sketches drawn by the revolutionary physicist, mathematician, and astronomer still adorn the house’s...

2001年5月25日 · Within an apple’s throw of Chamberlin Hall, home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics Department, there grows a tree that is said to be a graft of the original tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of the law of universal gravitation in 1665/6. The tree was donated by U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner who…

Isaac Newton and the story of the apple tree that defined and defied gravity and provided the foundation for his theories on the laws of gravity and motion.

Apple Tree The apple tree in the garden to the rear of the building is said to be a descendent from the tree that inspired Isaac Newton. It is said that Newton gave the following account of the event to his friend William Stukely: ‘After dinner the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, only he and myself.