Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Westfall , Richard S. and Conduitt, John (1983-04-29), Memorandum of a conversation with Newton in August 1726, Cambridge Univ Pr, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, Retrieved on 2012-02-08Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: Memes
08 FEB 2012
The Earliest Account of Newton and the Apple
In the year 1666 he retired again from Cambridge... to his mother in Lincolnshire & whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (wch brought an apple from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon said he to himself & if so that must influence her motion & perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a c...Includes the fact that he extended the force pulling the apple to the ground up to the moon.