He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from ... Philip Ball tells the story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas ...

Voltaire, writing in English in his Essay on the Civil War in France (1727), spoke of 'Sir Isaac Newton walking in his Garden had the first thought of his System of Gravitation, upon seeing an Apple ...

Isaac Newton changed the way ... at the calculus independently. The story of the falling apple has became part of the mythology that surrounds Newton, as Robert Hannah's 19th Century portrait ...

Giles Wood (centre) said it had been "a moving moment" to collect the sapling with his two sons Rollo (left) and Robert A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton who bought a sapling from the apple tree ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired ... sharing the science and stories with school children and the public. This unique and rare event is in ...