Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online (AP) PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 18 January 2010 12:13

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by William Stukeley, pointing to the word 'gravitation', in London. An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Lucy Young)AP - It always falls down. That's how the apple helped Isaac Newton.


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