“One day when 22- or 23-year-old Isaac Newton happened to be watching a tree, he really changed everything,” Joshua Erlich told the crowd. “And that’s what we’re here to celebrate today. The Small ...

If you’ve ever walked along Trinity Street in Cambridge, you have likely passed a tree which is often the centre of a lot of ...

The tree is reputed to be the one from which in 1665 fell the apple that helped Sir Isaac Newton formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation. The original tree died about 1815-1820.

Newton's Apple Tree Bound For Gravity-Free Orbit Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree. Now a bit of that tree is going into zero gravity.

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 ...

The Flower of Kent is already in flower. One of two clones of Isaac Newton’s original apple tree is already bearing a blossom, even though the two were planted in late February outside Small Hall.

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 ...

a direct descendent of the tree isaac newton is said to have sat under when contemplating his theory of gravity . >> the very tree, we think. >> david kaiser, a professor at m.i.t..

A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton has bought a sapling from the apple tree said to have inspired the theory of gravity so that he can grow it at the family's cider farm. Giles Wood, 68, from Dorset ...

In that text, he refers to Sir Isaac Newton’s tree-planting puzzle, which he calls “the most familiar example” of this genus of brain-teaser. I have restated it briefly, below: ...